Continuation School Girls, Age 15, working at the Bonanno Laundry

A continuation school is, apparently, sort of an at risk, or work study, type of high school. All of the girls in these pictures were students of such a school and employed at the Bonanno Laundry, in Boston. They were all photographed on this day, in 1917.

Frank DeNatale, Boy Barber

Frank DeNatale, age 12, shaving a customer in his father's barber shop located at 416 Hanover Street, Boston Massachusetts on this day in 1917.  He worked there after school and Saturdays.

The Waitress

Delia Kane, age 14.  The Exchange Luncheon, Boston.  January 31, 1917.

Teenage labor at the index card company, January 31, 1917

Teenage girl, age 15, punching cards.

Making labels.

Teenage labor at the Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor, Boston MA, January 30, 1917

Female worker, age 15.

15  years old.

Fred, age 14.

The Office Boy.

15 year old office boy in  the office of N.Y., N.H. & H.R.R. coal yard, January 29, 1917.  My grandfather was doing this same job, about this same year, for the Cunard Steam Ship Company in San Fransisco.  He was 13 years old.  A great grandfather had occupied the same job, a few decades earlier, also as a teenager, in an insurance company.

Teenage labor at the curtain factory, January 29, 1917

Edward McGurin, 14 years old.

Florence Anderson, 15 years old.

Katherine Flanagan, 15 years old.

Sadie McGurin, 15 years old.

Gertrude Belier, 15 years old.

Bessie Blitch, 15 years old.

Helen Whitty, 15  years old.

The Coal Thieves

Boston Massachusetts, on this day, in 1917.

Teenage female Labor in the flower factory. Boston, January 29, 1917

Margaret Reddington, age 14.  Powdering roses at the Boston Floral Supply Company.

Celina Melcionno, 14 years old, waxing flowers at the Boston Floral Supply Company.

Sadie Singer, age 15, Boston Floral Supply Company, racking flowers.

Margaret Ciampa, 14 years old, finishing flowers.

Corinne Le May, 15 years old, bunching sweet peas.

Left to right, Beatrice Sicco, Pauline Steele,and Mary Donahue, all 15 years old, working on flowers.

I can't help but wonder how many of these teenage girls were immigrants themselves or first generation Americans.  Lots of Irish and Italian last names in there.

Beacon Street house being demolished, Boston, January 27, 1917.

Note the wood being scavenged.

Firewood location, City of Boston, 1917

On this day, in 1917, in Boston.

Firewood in Boston. . . something that wouldn't be a daily occurrence now.

Scenes of Child Labor in Boston, 1917.

Very young newsie.

On this day, in 1917.

Street vendor

 

Selling oranges

  Selling celery

 Selling balloons.

Selling bananas.

Selling firewood.

Selling fruit.

Collecting bags to be mended.

Selling lemons

Selling lemons.

Selling lemons.

Selling lemons.