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Happy Childhood Days [editorial cartoons by F. T. Richards and Thomas May]

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Two editorial cartoons dealing with child labor republished in Cartoons Magazine, vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1913), p. 239. At top: A cartoon by F. T. Richards, originally published in the Philadelphia North American. Wearing a top hat with ribbons and…

Tags: cartoon, Cartoons Magazine, child labor, children, F. T. Richards, greed, labor, Thomas May

Why don't you put this boy to work in the factory... [editorial cartoon by Boardman Robinson]

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Editorial cartoon by Boardman Robinson. Originally published in the New York Tribune. Republished here in Cartoons Magazine vol. 3, no. 2 (February 1913), p. 103. A man with a bowler hat, cane, and cigar looks down at a small barefoot boy standing…

Tags: Boardman Robinson, cartoon, Cartoons Magazine, child labor, hypothes.is, poverty

The Doctor Looks at Child Labor. NCLC Pamphlet No. 356

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A symposium edited by the NCLC. A series of statements related to the long-term health effects of child labor on children and youth. "The insidious thing about child labor is that its effects manifest themselves at the most unexpected times in later…

Tags: agriculture, child labor, malnutrition, migrants, National Child Labor Committee, NCLC, public health, tuberculosis, women's health

Casualties of Child Labor: Ten Children Illegally Employed in Pennsylvania and What Happened to Them

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Pamphlet issued by the Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania as an exposé of workplace accidents involving children. The authors make an appeal to regulate child labor, and “To break down the conspiracy of silence” (p. 11) about illegal child…

Tags: child labor, Consumers' League, Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, public health

"Child Labor" Legislation [Anti- Child labor legislation pamphlet]

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Pamphlet by John F. Schenck, Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association, arguing against legal protections for child workers in cotton mills and other Southern industries. Excerpts:p. 6-7…

Tags: child labor, education, John F. Schenck, North Carolina, textile industry

Here in Massachusetts [Massachusetts Child Labor Committee pamphlet]

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Here in Massachusetts: A fund raising pamphlet issued by the Massachusetts Child Labor Committee to promote regulation of working conditions and employment for children. The pamphlet cites statistics on child labor and industrial accidents and argues…

Tags: child labor, Massachusetts

Letter from Owen R. Lovejoy to Dr. Samuel McCuns Lindsay, January 27, 1925

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Letter to Dr. Samuel McCuns Lindsay, Chairman, National Child Labor Committee from Owen R. Lovejoy, General Secretary, National Child Labor CommitteeDated January 27, 1925. In the letter Lovejoy reflects on the campaign against child labor and…

Tags: child labor, National Child Labor Committee, NCLC, Owen Reed Lovejoy

What Did Miss Abbott Really Say? [NCLC pamphlet]

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A pamphlet issued by the National Child Labor Committee to present testimony by Grace Abbott, former head of the United States Children’s Bureau, before the House Judiciary Committee on February 15, 1924. The pamphlet was issued in order to counter…

Tags: child labor, Child Labor Amendment, Grace Abbott, National Child Labor Committee, NCLC, William D. Guthrie

"The Child Labor Amendment" to U.S. Constitution. [Anti- Child Labor Amendment pamphlet]

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A report by the Committee on Industrial Relations to the New York Board of Trade and Transportation.The pamphlet states that a child labor amendment is not needed and that “…it makes a natural and sympathetic appeal calculated to forestall criticism…

Tags: Bolshevism, child labor, Child Labor Amendment, communism, New York, socialism

Some Constitutional Aspects of the Child Labor Amendment [Anti- Child Labor Amendment materials]

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Materials sent to pastors in the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS), urging them to contact their state representatives to oppose ratification of the Child Labor Amendment, which was adopted by Congress in 1924. Included are a note from…

Tags: child labor, Child Labor Amendment, Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, Florence Kelley, gender, Missouri, Sentinels of the Republic, socialism

Child Labor in Virginia. NCLC Pamphlet No. 171

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Pamphlet by Alexander Jeffrey McKelway, Secretary for the Southern States, National Child Labor Committee. With photographs by Lewis W. Hine, staff photographer for the NCLC. Lewis Hine made a photographic investigation of child labor in Virginia in…

Tags: A. J. McKelway, child labor, children, labor, Lewis W. Hine, National Child Labor Committee, NCLC, Virginia

Migrant Children and Youth

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Sent to Congressman W. R. Poage (Texas) with a cover letter signed by Betty Jane Whitaker of the Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers.This paper was written by Florence R. Wyckoff, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Families Who Follow the Crops,…

Tags: agriculture, child labor, children, education, farmworkers, migrants, public health, rural, Texas, Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers, youth

Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers. Letter to Congressman W. R. Poage from Betty Jane Whitaker

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This letter was written to Congressman W. R. Poage by Betty Jane Whitaker, Co-chairman of the Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers, asking him to help improve the lives of migrant workers and their children. Whitaker asks for this to be done…

Tags: agriculture, child labor, children, education, farmworkers, housing, migrants, poverty, public health, rural, Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers

Position of Farm Workers in Federal and State Legislation

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This pamphlet, written by Robin Myers and published by the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, describes the rights of migrant farm workers in the late 1950s. This excerpt describes the conditions and the rights of child workers at both the…

Tags: agriculture, Braceros, child labor, children, education, farmworkers, Legislation, migrants, poverty, rural

Woman Citizen, December 27, 1924

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Issue concerned with the Child Labor Amendment.Cover illustration identified as "Etching 'Felix' by Eileen A. Soper. Copyright, A.C. & H.W. Dickens--Courtesy Robertson Deschamps Galleries."

Tags: child labor, suffrage, suffrage periodicals, Woman Citizen, women's history

Woman Citizen, April 17, 1920

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Article concerning the third publication in the Children's Bureau series on illegitimacy, "Illegitimacy as a Child Welfare Problem" (Bur. Pub. No. 66). Lists seven minimum standards for illegitimate children's welfare as adopted by the Children's…

Tags: advertising, child labor, Child Welfare, Children's Bureau, education, illegitimacy, League of Women Voters, maps, news, Sheppard-Towner Bill, suffrage periodicals, Woman Citizen

They Are Advancing

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Pamphlet advocating for theChild Labor Amendment,passed in 1924, but never ratified.

Tags: cartoon, child labor, Child Labor Amendment, labor, Legislation, National Child Labor Committee

Women's Work and War

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Women's Work and War: A Bulletin of Facts Concerning the Employment of Women to Meet the Deficit of Man Power in Our National Industrial Emergency. Published by the National Women's Trade Union League. p.1 "The working women are eager to help win the…

Tags: Chicago, child labor, labor, war, women workers, women's history, Women's Trade Union League, World War I

Wages of Saleswomen: What the United States Government Says and What the Consumers' League Knows

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This pamphlet by the Consumers' League is an analysis of the 1907-1910 Bureau of Labor report on the condition of woman and child wage earners in the United States. Specifically, this pamphlet looks into the 391 girls who worked in New York City's…

Tags: child labor, Consumers' League, labor, New York, women workers, women's history

Labor Laws in War Time. Special Bulletin, No. 1, April, 1917

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Publication discussing the importance of protections for the civilian labor force during wartime. Discusses efficiencey Includes concerns for safety, sanitation, hours, wages, child labor, woman's work, social insurance, labor market and…

Tags: American Association for Labor Legislation, child labor, labor, women workers, World War I

Standards for the Employment of Women in Work on War Supplies as submitted to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense

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A report from the Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.These standards include recommendations on tenement house work, child labor, protection of mothers, wages, hours, seats, extra heavy and…

Tags: child labor, Committee on Women in Industry, Grace Abbott, labor, Mothers, seats, war, women workers, women's history, working conditions, World War I

Woman Citizen, June 9, 1917

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"They Shall Not Pass" cover cartoon by C. D. Batchelor "They Work Together: Why Not Vote Together" from photo spread pp. 28-29, entitled "Light Work for Ladies."

Tags: C. D. Batchelor, cartoon, child labor, labor, news, suffrage, suffrage periodicals, Woman Citizen, women's history

An Amendment to the Constitution is Needed to Give the United States Power to Safeguard the Child Life of the Nation

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Pamphlet advocating for theChild Labor Amendment,passed in 1924, but never ratified.Cover cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper cartoonist John T. McCutcheon.[Image description] Two child laborers operate machinery. Above them is a cloud…

Tags: cartoon, child labor, Child Labor Amendment, children, greed, John T. McCutcheon, labor, Legislation

Errand Boys, Child Labor Street Permit #254 [pinback button]

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Child labor street permit. This pinback button for an errand boy was issued in 1929. Variant state seal with armored Virtus and mountains in the distance.

Tags: button, child labor, Virginia

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