Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 , and they work later. Girls are 12 and 14 years old and go to school working in the morning before school and at night after studying is finished. Mother said, It is better for children to learn something useful to do. The three average one dozen brushes a day. (30 cents.) One of the girls said she would rather work then [, than] study. Shultz family, 476 Third Ave., Brooklyn. February 5, 1912. Abstract: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee ()

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