History 101:
An army of toiling children

This list from the 1895 book Hull-House Maps and Papers, put together by workers at Jane Addams’ Hull House, catalogs the results of medical examinations done on a group of Chicago children applying for certificates to continue their factory jobs.

Dangerous workplaces were the ones most likely to employ young people: Map visualizes the makeup of the nearby neighborhoods. More at Slate

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