Photo of Antonio Martina, circa 1910--eleven going on thirty

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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