Everybody works but----. A common scene in the tenements. Father sits around. "Sometime I make $, sometime $ a week on the railroad; sometime nottin'." Helen, 5 years old, and Adeline, 10 years old, help pick nuts. Tessie, a neighbor, helps too. Adeline works until 9 at times. All together they make $ a week. Family of Dometrio Capilluto, 141 Hudson St., .

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Italian Family picks nuts in their tenement apartment

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Size: 4500px × 3033px
Location: United States
Photo credit: © Buyenlarge \ UIG / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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