ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
1. A Typical Scene Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2. Three “Little Mothers” and their Charges 1
3. Group of “Lung Block” Children 5
4. Rachitic Types 12
5. Babies whose Mothers Work 16
6. Police Station used as a “Clean Milk” Depot 35
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
xxii25. 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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