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Italian immigrants
Bridgeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: November 1909
Notes: "Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. A young "holding-mold boy" is seen, dimly, in middle distance to left of centre. Negroes, Greeks and Italians are being employed in many glass houses. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wikes Hine. Digital ID: 05437.
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Italian immigrants
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.
Date: May 21 1910
Notes: "Joseph Severio. Peanut vendor. 11 years of age. Pushing cart 2 years. Out after midnight on May 21, 1910. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Works of own volition. Don't smoke. All earnings go to father." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes, Hine. Digital ID: 03564.
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Italian immigrants
U.S.A.
Date: 1913
Notes: "15-year-old Italian boy polishing small brass part." Subjects: Child labour -- United States." Digital Image ID: 464469. Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine.
Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery

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Italian immigrants
U.S.A.
Date: 1913
Notes: "A 13 year old Italian boy at his job after school hours." Digital ID: 464475.
Contributed by: The New York Public Library, Digital Gallery

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Italian immigrants
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
Date: August 1908
Notes: "Marie Costa, Basket Seller, 605 Elm St., Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati, 9 P.M. Had been there since 10 A.M. Sister and friend help her." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 03197.
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Italian immigrants
Indianapolis, Indiana
Date: August 1908
Notes: "Indianapolis Fruit Venders, Italian boys." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Italian immigrants
Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: September 1911
Notes: "Antonio Satera, 135 1/2 Common St., works in folding-in room of the Wood Mill. Is an illiterate -- probably 13 years old." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 02355.
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Italian immigrants
Winchendon, Massachusetts
Date: September 1911
Notes: "Left Frank Chebarro, admitted 13 years old; been making bands all summer in Glenallen Mill. Said, "I wouldn't go to school until they come after me." Also brother Edgar, 8 years old, who "helps" brother. "He picks up bobbins and things like that." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 02311.
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Italian immigrants
Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.
Date: [March 1913]
Notes: "Bellenti Family, Crosoria, 10 years, Joe 9, Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two oldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest make 25 cents each day. Sam been selling 2 years. Knows little English. Illiterate. Do not go to school. Tony youngest newsy in Florida. Buy candy and go to movies." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 03841.
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Italian immigrants
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Date: March 1910
Notes: "Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Gets 1 cents a pound for snipping beans at the sheds at Hamburg Canning Factory. Geno was 8 years old, last summer. These two and mother made 70 to 80 cents a day. Much of this money goes to pay rent in Buffalo, that is reserved through the summer. All three worked in sheds. They went to the country the last of May returned to Buffalo middle of October, losing about 9 weeks of school. Attend School # 2." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00766.
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