Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Mass. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years old, all working after school, holidays, etc., stringing these button moulds. Mrs. Weeks said that the most they ever made was from $7 to $10 a month; usually less. The house was crowded up and the floor not very clean. Mrs. Weeks said that one time the children were all confined to the house by scarlet fever, and then she strung the most buttons she ever

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Stringing wooden buttons in a crowded home, Williamsburg,

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Location: United States
Photo credit: © Buyenlarge \ UIG / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 1912, apartment, child, cottage, crochet, family, immigrants, industry, labor, needlework, photographic, tenements