Child labour posters & prints

Child labour, c. 1913 Anonymous

Young girl tending the fire holes of a brick kiln, 1871 Unknown

Boys making cigars at Englehardt & Co, Tampa, Florida, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Barefoot girls sifting dust in a brickyard, 1871 Unknown

Bill May, aged 5 who makes 15 cents a day, in the shucking shed at Barataria Canning Company, Biloxi, Mississippi,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Cotton picker aged 4 who picks 15 pounds a day regularly and 7 year old who picks 50 Lewis Wickes Hine

Edith 5 and Hughie 6 pick cotton all day, Alton 7 picks 50 pounds and Ruth 9 picks 75, at... Lewis Wickes Hine

Child spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, South Carolina, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

A six year old Polish girl picking berries all day with her family Lewis Wickes Hine

Child labour, c. 1913 Anonymous

Elsie and Sadie working at Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi said they were 13 years old, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Small boys climbing on spinning frame to mend broken threads and replace empty bobbins at Bibb Mill, Macon, Georgia, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Baltimore, Maryland, July 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Tony Casale known as 'Bologna' aged 11, selling papers for 4 years, bitten by his father for not selling enough,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Charlie McBride aged 12 takes wood from a chute for 10 hours at Miller & Vidor Lumber Company, Beaumont, Texas Lewis Wickes Hine

Boy making baskets for melons at Evansville, Indiana, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Ten year old Charlie Foster, unable to read, with a steady job at Merrimack Mills, Huntsville, Alabama, 1913 Lewis Wickes Hine

Breaker boys at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Fannie, 48 inches high, aged 7, one of 19 children helping her sister in Elk Mills, Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Jo Arnao 3, picking cranberries with his brother 6 and sister 9 at Whites Bog, Browns Mills, New Jersey, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

A doffer replaces full bobbins at Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Anti Child Labor Poster, 1913. Anonymous

10 year old Mike Murphy, 7 year old Annie Healy and 10 year old Ross Healy in the shucking shed... Lewis Wickes Hine

Engraving of Children Working in a Factory Anonymous

5 year old Olga Schubert began work about 5:00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, Mississippi, picking... Lewis Wickes Hine

Child Textile Workers Holding Protest Signs During Strike Anonymous

Illustration of Children Working in an English Coal Mine Anonymous

2 year old Cyral hulling strawberries from his cart at Johnson's Hulling Station, Seaford, Delaware, sometimes falling asleep for a... Lewis Wickes Hine

Alex Reiber aged 7 carries on topping sugar beets after 'hooking' his knee, near Sterling, Colorado, 1915 Lewis Wickes Hine

Children Working in Brickyard Anonymous

Joe Mello, aged 8 or 9 works as a mill sweeper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911. Lewis Wickes Hine

Engraving of a Child Working in a Factory Anonymous

8 year old Leo, only 4 feet tall, picks up bobbins for 15 cents a day at Elk Cotton Mills,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Boy sweeper by carding machines at Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Indiana in stockinged feet on a slippery floor, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn & Platt Canning Company, Bluffton,... Lewis Wickes Hine

John Dempsey, 11 or 12 years old, Saturday worker in the mule-spinning room at Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, Rhode Island, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine