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Night Shift: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 12:19am.
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November 1909. Two of the boys on night shift in the More-Jones Glass Co., Bridgeton, New Jersey. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
OH MY
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 9:51pm.
Now THAT kid is CUUUUTE!!! And look at his MUSCLES!
Hey I'm 16 year old girl......what can I say?
Kid on the left
Submitted by cliff on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 1:24am.
Man, that is a good-looking kid. A century later he'd be River Phoenix. Instead he got to be a child laborer.
[Considering what happened to River Phoenix, maybe our boy got the better deal. - Dave]
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