I'd just like to say a long belated "thank you" to Joe Manning for all his hard work. I've been with Shorpy since the beginning and have learned so much from this site, as well as the contributors such as Joe. However, everything has a cost. By following all links posted, one thing usually leads to another, etc. My kids have gotten a real hold on any potential weight problem, I should qualify for an episode of "Hoarders" judging by the time I'm spending on my house and then there's my husband. Has anyone seen him lately???

This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. Mariano was 15 years old when he was photographed. In 1916, Massachusetts enacted the most progressive child labor law in the country. Children age 14 and 15 could not work in factories unless they were certified by school authorities that they could read and write English, and that they had finished at least the fourth grade. A similar law, the Keating-Owen Act, was passed by the US Congress the same year. Hine was in Fall River to see if the Massachusetts law was being enforced. He confirmed that it apparently was.