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August 1912. Tenement home work (piecework for garment makers). "Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Somerville, Massachusetts. This is one of the places she works on crochet." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
What kind of quality work could a young child like this do? Was it only the poorest of the poor whose children had to work? Most people who knew about these times are long gone now.
[These were mostly families that had recently immigrated from Russia, Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe. - Dave]
The online database for Somerville's assessors includes a current photo of 22 Horace Street, as well as other buildings in that city.
The Assessors' database says the 2-family house was built in 1900, so it's probably the same building, although I can't seem to match them up. Take a look yourself by following this link -- http://data.visionappraisal.com/somervillema/search.asp
[That's interesting. Hine's caption is saying Annie lived at 22 Horace Street, not that this is necessarily the house at that address. - Dave]
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