Hamburg Canning Factory,Buffalo,New York,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,1910

Title: Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Get 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 and made 70 to 80 cents a day. Much of this money goes to pay rent for [...] 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. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1910 March.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Canneries.
Hine no. 1328.
Portion of text cut off on caption card.
Subjects:
Children.
Child laborers.
Food industry.
School attendance.
Wages.
United States--New York (State)--Buffalo.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004001963/PP/
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