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Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution

​Primary Source Document Analysis

Document A
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Series 12979, Union label registration application files, 1889-1943, New York State Department of State.
Document B
Supreme Court brief outlining findings of the Factory Investigating Commission. 
Series A3024, Proofs of brief supporting the conviction of Jacob Balofsky, 1914, New York State Factory Investigating Commission. 
Document C
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Excerpt of Chapter 529 of the Laws of 1913, prohibiting the employment of children less than fourteen years of age in manufacturing work in tenement houses.
Document D
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Letter from WPA Teachers Union to Governor Lehman expressing the union members' position on child labor.
Document E
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Telegram from the Mrs. of Nassau County to Governor Lehman protesting the Child Labor Amendment on the grounds of government encroachment on family decisions. 
Document F
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Article clipping from 1931, Chauncey, PA.
Document G
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Vera Hill, age 5, picks 25 pounds of cotton a day in Oklahoma. 
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