Historic Photographs of Children Laboring at Home

Little girl washing eggs

 

A little girl irons her clothes

 

Picking beans on the family farm, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, 1942
Twelve-year-old girl who keeps house in a trailer for her three brothers who are migrant workers, near Harlingen, Texas, February 1939

 

Two girls wash and spin clothes to clothesline, 1907


Young girl gathering water from the pump well, Aroostook County, Maine, 1942

 

A child drawing water from a hand pump, Oklahoma, July 1939

 

Children putting washing through the mangle to wring it dry for their mother, 1941

 

Girl doing laundry in wash tub, ca. 1890s

 

Girl holding her little sister while cooking, New Mexico, 1943

 

Girl pins handkerchiefs to clothesline

 

Girl pins laundry to clothesline, 1944

 

Girls knitting at home, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, 1942

 

Hanging dolls clothes on a clothesline, c. 1895

 

Little girl washing her dolls clothes in a tin bath