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Italian immigrants
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Date: March 1910
Notes: "Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street, Buffalo, N.Y., 11 years old last summer. Attends School # 1. He, and a 13 year old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping beans at 1 cents a pound. Left for the country in May, returned late September, losing about 7 weeks of school. He sells papers reluctantly." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00767.
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Italian immigrants
U.S.A.
Date: 1913
Notes: "A twelve-year-old Italian boy... in a job printing shop." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 464412.
Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery

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Italian immigrants
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Date: March 1909
Notes: "Tommy De Lucco 9 years old, newsie. Been selling 2 years. Sells until 8 P.M. at times." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 03244.
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Italian immigrants
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Date: February 1910
Notes: "Italian newsies selling on Main St. at 10 P.M. Left to right: Lawrence Ferrer, 12 years old, 76 Front Ave.; Mathew Chinera, 11 years old, 58 E. Prier St.; Steve Cajuto, 11 years old, 218 7th St.; Rosario De Salvio, 11 years old, 81 Trenton Street." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Italian immigrants
Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Date: February 1910
Notes: "Group of Italian Newsies on South Ave., selling in saloons, and stores. Had just come out of saloon in front of which they are standing. Behind them two typical saloon-patrons who insisted on being in the picture. 10 P.M. Cold. Snowing. Left to right: Joseph Inquagguito, 15 years, 3 Vetter St. Frank Manuel, 10 years old, 21 Fillander St. Tony Nessera, 12 years, 85 Waited St. Tony Compesse, 9 years old, 18 Vetter St. Sam Compesse, 12 years old, 18 Vetter St." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Sacramento, California, U.S.A.
Date: May 1915
Notes: "6 year old Luigi, a newsboy beggar working the public." Photo & Notes: Lewis W. Hine. Digital ID: 03958.
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Italian immigrants
New Bedord, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: August 22, 1911
Notes: "Fernance Silvia, 7 year old newsie, sells until 8 o'clock some nights." Digital ID: 03741.
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Italian immigrants
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: January 29, 1917
Notes: "Celina Melchionno, 14 years old, waxing (dipping) flowers at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts." Notes and photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 05159.
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Italian immigrants
Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: June 19, 1916
Notes: "Accident case - Union Hospital. Molla Mesuretta, 17 years. Weaver at Sagamore Mill. Worked two years. Laceration and partial evulsion of tip of finger and nail. Hurt September 1915 while cleaning loom in motion. "They all clean when the machine is going." She will always be handicapped. Not able to go back yet. Finger is tender. Nail split and finger tip cut to the quick. Wages $7.50; compensation $4.67. Finger that she needs most in weaving was hurt." Photo and notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 03079.
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U.S.A.
Date: 1914?
Notes: Title of cartoon, "An Awful Blot." Photographed by Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04992.
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