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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.
Now THAT kid is CUUUUTE!!! And look at his MUSCLES!
Hey I'm 16 year old girl......what can I say?
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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