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Mannington Glass Works. Uses no small boys (below 15): These are average: manager said they do not believe in working boys that ought to be in school. Say it pays to use large boys, as they pay them same as small ones--$1 a day: employ 60 men and 30 boys 15 to 18 years: no young girls, October 1908

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7Identifier: Vis 5, Hine no. 0173
Scope and Content Note:: This collection of National Child Labor Committee photographs contains twenty black and white gelatin silver print photographs of workplace and living environments during the beginning of the twentieth century. The photographs were taken in Massachusetts, South Carolina, West Virginia, and New York between 1908 and 1923. Hine's images captured children at work in glass factories, textile mills, canneries, and outside the workplace. Each photograph has a number on the back, which was given by...