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The US has a child labor problem – recalling an embarrassing past that Americans may think they've left behind

  • Written by Beth Saunders, Curator and Head of Special Collections and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The US has a child labor problem – recalling an embarrassing past that Americans may think they've left behindLewis Wickes Hine, 'A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill, 1909.'Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (P545), CC BY-SA

At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Special Collections, where I am head curator, we’ve recently completed a major digitization and...

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