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October 1908. "Central Glass Company. Wheeling, West Virginia. Dozens of small boys here." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
The boys appear to be 'manning' cullet bins, waiting for the master blower to call for tempering of the dopp.
Glass was a big business in WV in those days. At the very least these kids learned the skilled trade of glassblowing, and probably later went on to work in the machine-blown glass trade.
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