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The Night Shift: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 2:26pm.
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November 15, 1909. Bridgeton, New Jersey. "Cumberland Glass Works. Night shift going to work." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Guff.
Submitted by rgraham on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 1:39am.
Not one of these guys looks like they would stand for any. In fact, they all look like they would be more than happy to give you a sock in the kisser if you decided to try. Yeah. See.
Billy Creekmore
Submitted by 510Russ on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 5:41pm.
After reading the novel "Billy Creekmore" by Tracey Porter, seeing the smallest kids in that photo makes me sick. The book has a Lewis Hine photo on the dust jacket, and part of it deals with the sad fate of a young boy who went to work in a glass company. While the story is fiction, it is based on the accounts of real people. Especially sobering is the author's note that the names of all characters in the book are those of children who died in mills, mines, and factories.
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