Children in Chains

Makena Bonheim

Child Labor in late 1800s and early 1900s

Child Labor
"The 1900 census found more
than 1,750,000 children
between the ages of 10 and
16 working for wages [...] This
figure excludes at least a
quarter million workers under
the age of 10."
-Derickson

Health
Children worked
in dangerous
environments
and hazardous
conditions.

Dangerous
Workplaces

Mental Development
Children forfeited school for work. Parents
needed their children's incomes to help support
the family as well.

uture
F
Families were
caught in
constant debt.
They also had no
other skills to find
a trade job.

"You can talk

about the
days of
slavery being
over, but this
is worse."
-Hine

References

Brown, Edward. Donald Mallick. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ nclc/item/ncl2004002267/PP/resource/

Derickson, Alan. "Making Human Junk: Child Labor as a Health Issue in the Progressive
Era." American
Journal of Public Health 82, no. 9 (1992): 1280-1290.

Hine, Lewis. A Little Spinner. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/nclc/ item/ncl2004001390/PP/resource/

Hine, Lewis. A View of the Pennsylvania Breaker. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ collection/nclc/item/ncl2004002616/PP/resource/

Hine, Lewis. Boy Making Melon Baskets. The Library of Congress. Picture.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ collection/nclc/item/ncl2004000230/PP/resource/

Hine, Lewis. Breaker Boys. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/det.
4a07285/

Hine, Lewis. Child Labor in the Canning Industry of Maryland. Letter. From Library of
Congress, National Child Labor Committee.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/nclc/reporting.html (accessed January 6, 2016).

Hine, Lewis. Cigar Factory of F. Delloiacono. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ collection/nclc/item/ncl2004003746/PP/resource/

Hine, Lewis. Cleo Campbell. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/nclc.
00627/?co=nclc

Hine, Lewis. Furman Owens. The History Place. Picture.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/
childlabor/hine-furman.htm

Hine, Lewis. Group of Oyster Shuckers. Library of Congress. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ collection/nclc/item/ncl2004002745/PP/resource/

Hine, Lewis. Harry McShane. Library of Congress, 1908. Picture.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ nclc/item/ncl2004000031/PP/resource/

Lewis, Hine. One of the Underprivileged. Flickriver, 1910. Picture.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/photo- tractatus/5753301249/

Hine, Lewis. The Factory: 9 p.m. in an Indiana Glass Works. The History Place.
Picture. http:// www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/hine-indiana.htm

Hine, Lewis. The Mill. The History Place. Picture.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

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