Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, taken in March, 1910. Buffalo, New York, from Sharpy.com. "Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street. 11 years old last summer. Attends School No. 1. He and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping beans at 1 cent a pound. Left for the country in May, returned late in September, losing about 7 weeks of school. He sells papers reluctantly."
Eleven going on thirty. . .
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