7. Babies of a New York Day Nursery 39
8. Group of Children whose Mothers are employed away
from their Homes 42
9. A Sample Report (_facsimile letter_) 46
10. Babies whose Mothers work cared for in a _Crèche_ 53
11. A “Lung Block” Child in a Tragically Suggestive
Position 60
12. A Typical “Little Mother” 72
13. A Cosmopolitan Group of “Fresh Air Fund” Children 94
14. “Fresh Air Fund” Children enjoying Life in the
Country 117
15. Communal School Kitchen, Christiania, Norway 124
16. New York Cellar Prisoners 133
17. Little Tenement Toilers 140
18. Juvenile Textile Workers on Strike 147
19. Night Shift in a Glass Factory 158
20. Breaker Boys at Work 165
21. Home “Finishers”: A Consumptive Mother and her Two
Children at Work 172
22. Silk Mill Girls after Two Years of Factory Life 184
23. A “Kindergarten” Tobacco Factory in Philadelphia 197
24. A Glass Factory by Night 204
25. A Free Infants’ Milk Depot (Municipal), Brussels 225
26. A Group of Working Mothers 231
27. A “Clean Milk” Distribution Centre in a Baker’s
Shop 234
28. Packing Bottles of “Clean Milk” in Ice 240
29. “A Makeshift”: Hammocks swung between the Cots in
an Overcrowded Day Nursery 245
30. Interior of the Communal School Kitchen,
Christiania 252
31. Weighing Babies at the _Gota de Leche_, Madrid 257
32. Five o’Clock Tea in the Country 261
33. A Little Fisherman 268
NOTE.—I am indebted to Miss Marjory Hall of New York for the pictures of
day nurseries and _crèches_; to Dr. G. W. Goler of Rochester, N.Y., for
permission to use several illustrations of his work; to the Rev. Peter
Roberts for the excellent illustration, “Breaker Boys at Work”; and to
the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee for several other illustrations
of working children.—J. S.
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