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Italian immigrants
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Date: March 1910
Notes: "Rosa Sarosa, room 42, 62 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old, last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and tomatoes. When they worked all day the three earned $1.50 paid 8 cents and hour for all time including overtime. Rosa and Sarah worked up to 10 P.M. sometimes last summer (a poor one) other years until midnight. Rosa worked in factory. Sarah and Jo in sheds part of the time. Went out to Albion last of May and came back middle of November, losing nearly 15 weeks of school time." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 99764.
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Italian immigrants
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Date: February 1910
Notes: "Home of the Palia family, 260 Terrace Street. The boy, America, in center, goes to the canning factory with his mother in summer." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00757.
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Italian immigrants
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Date: February 1910
Notes: "Home of Rosario Guarino, 13 Mechanic Street. (Boy on left.)These people spend the summer at one of the Canning Centres." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00761.
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U.S.A.
Date: 1914?
Notes: Exhibit panel for National Child Labor Committee. Photographed by Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04960.
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U.S.A.
Date: [1913?]
Notes: "Exhibit panel [Tenement homework]. Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.). Photographer: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04309.
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U.S.A.
Date: [1913]
Notes: "Exhibit panel [Tenement homework]." Photographer: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04311.
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Italian immigrants
U.S.A.
Date: ca. 1907-1933
Notes: "Woman of Italian or Mediterranean family." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 439991.
Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery

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Italian immigrants
U.S.A.
Date: 1913
Notes: "14-year-old Italian girl in paper box factory." In "Series of photographic documents of social conditions/ L.W. Hine, Unit II Child Labor in the U.S." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 464465.
Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery

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Italian immigrants
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.
Date: May 21 1910
Notes: "Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 20540.
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Italian immigrants
Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: June 18, 1916
Notes: "John Megna - Italian -- 16 yrs. 75 Mt. Hope Ave. Iron Worker - Sweeper. Carving class at King Philip Settlement." Photo & Notes: Lewis W. Hine.
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