Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine, 8 years old, has cross eyes, and with the boy about same age works too. Some of them work until 8 or 9 at times. Boy holding baby is foolish. Husband works on railroad part of the time. 10-year-old-girl cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. 8-year-old child has cross eyes and works, as well as the boy. New York City, 1911. Manufacture of food in tenement homes is now prohibited in New York State.

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Italian family packing nuts in their tenement apartment

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Size: 4500px × 3267px
Location: United States
Photo credit: © Buyenlarge \ UIG / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1911, apartment, baby, child, children, cottage, family, immigrants, industry, infant, kitchen, labor, manhattan, nuts, nyc, packing, photographic, tenements, workers