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Camden, NJ
Date: May 1944
Notes: My Holy Communion photo. I was 12 Hears old.
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Italian immigrants
501 Broadway, N.Y., U.S.A.
Date: ca. 1861
Notes: "Italian peasant girl" Photo: James Wallace Black.
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Italian immigrants
New York City
Date: Feb. 1943
Notes: "Italian-American child at First Avenue and Tenth Street." Digital ID: 8d13177.
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Italian immigrants
New York City
Date: Feb. 1943
Notes: "Italian-American children warming their hands outside a fruit store at First Avenue and Tenth Street." Digital ID: 8d13176.
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Little Italy, Boston, U.S.A.
Date: 1937
Notes: Hot dog stand in Boston's North End [Little Italy] corner of Hanover and Blackstone Streets.
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Italian immigrants
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: October 9, 1909
Notes: Title: "'Fire-Fire-I Want to Make the fire.' An Italian Boy on Salem Street Saturday Morning, offering to make fires for Jewish People." Subjects: Boys. Child laborers. Italian Americans. Shabbas goy. Sabbaths." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital no.: 03303.
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Italian immigrants
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date: November 23, 1912
Notes: "(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13). Cigarettes. Spruce St., Italian Boys, Providence, R.I." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. No. 04801.
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Italian immigrants
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: [1917 February 1]
Notes: "Vincenzo Messina, 15 years old and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for father, 174 Salem Street. Vincenzo is working nights now, from 5 P.M. to 5 P.M. Usually works on day shift. Angelo helps a great deal, tends store and helps bake too.] Part of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.). Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 05178. For more photos of working kids see "LABOR."
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Italian immigrants
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: February 1, 1917
Notes: "Frank De Natale, a 12 year old barber. Lathers and shaves customers in father's shop, 416 Hanover Street, after school and Sunday." Part of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee. Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 05194....For more photos of working kids see "LABOUR."
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Italian immigrants
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: 1912 August
Notes: "Vitto Romano, 76 Charter Street, Boston, Mass., carrying load of garments from 30 Blackstone Street. Said 12 years old and that only his mother finishes them." Notes and photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04241.
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