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This grocery clerk boy (see preinjury picture) lost his arms in a dough-mixing machine at the age of 14 in the 1930's. By this time, there were only about .6 million children working. The highest number of children working was in 1910 at 2 million.…

A busy, strong boy working at a grocery store in Clevleand. From the photograph, it does not look like such a demanding job, but he was required to do other tasks, including working with machinery.

These young boys were selling newspapers on the street corner. Were they hiding their faces? By 1910, there were 2 million children working. Though these boys weren't in the terrible conditions of factories, they did work long hours, often waking…

This assistant baker started at 14 and would work all night long, 5 nights every week from 10 pm to 7 or 8 am at Parkers Bakery. In 1904, only 2 states limited child working to a maximum of 8 hours a day. And only 5 states prohibited night work for…

This letter reveals that the Consumer League was aware of children working in Ohio. The children reported in the article had bad working conditions and some boys were even injured at work.

This is an article from The Cleveland Press from 1912 about children being harmed while working in a tobacco plant.

This is an article from The Cleveland Press in 1913 that describes children working in factories and shops, including jewelry stores and grocery stores, until midnight.

This is an article from The Cleveland Press in 1925 that describes the fight of Elizabeth Magee for children's rights.

This is a correspondance between workers of the Consumer League of Ohio. It details poor working conditions for girls in a factory

Around 1911, these few young breaker boys working in Pennsylvania were carrying their lunches to the mine. These boys did not attend school but instead worked long hours in the mine. It was not until 1918, that compulsory education laws were…