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Tenement Homeworker: 1912

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 11:56am.
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Tenement homeworker with clothing tags. Roxbury, Massachusetts. August 1912. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Homeworkers, often children, sewed tags onto finished garments or performed other piecework at home instead of going to school.

Tenement homeworker with clothing tags. Roxbury, Massachusetts. August 1912. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Homeworkers, often children, sewed tags onto finished garments or performed other piecework at home instead of going to school.

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Submitted by kooshy on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 9:19pm.

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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 11:32am.

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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 03/21/2007 - 2:54pm.

I'm bookmarking that page. Next time one of my kids complains about having to pick up their Legos or clean their rooms, I'm going to show them some of those pictures and point out that things could be worse!

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