Between 1890 and 1910, no less than 18% of all children ages 10-15 worked.
WEBSITES
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/history-of-child-labor-in-the-united-states-part-1.htm
History of Child Labor: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/industrial-revolution/child-labor
About Photographer Lewis Hine: https://iphf.org/inductees/lewis-hine/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lewis-W-Hine
University of Iowa Labor Center: https://laborcenter.uiowa.edu/special-projects/child-labor-public-education-project
Child Labor and Virginia Politics: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4434&context=etd
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