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  • October 17, 2013

    The New York State Training School for Girls, 1904-1975

    BY Lucas Habte

    The New York State Training School for Girls was established in Hudson, New York in 1904 as a new establishment for the internment of “incorrigible” girls between the ages of 12 and 15. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 15, 2012

    Possum Power

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    httpv://youtu.be/mvn79E40VSc

    Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living : How To Live Well Without A Job And With (Almost) No Money at the age of 18 with only a 7th grade education.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • August 3, 2012

    Young Miners

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    These sorrowful photographs by Lewis Hine show the work life of young boys during a time when child labor was exploited.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • May 18, 2012

    Victory Youth Farmers

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Homegrown WWII propaganda inviting young people to farm for victory.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • March 13, 2012

    Mill Girl Murder

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    From the 1830s-1850s young women in their late teens to early twenties flocked to New England to work in factories.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • December 21, 2011

    Deep End

    BY Amelia Stein

    Deep End is about love in the most unlikely, and humid, of places.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • October 12, 2011

    Teenage Truffle

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Ian Purkayastha can talk truffle. Ian developed a passion for fungi in his early teens which inspired him to start a company—Tartufi Unlimited—selling outlandishly expensive European truffles out of his hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • August 23, 2011

    Farm Girls

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Mexican girls, carrot workers, Edinburg, Texas. 1939

    A spectrum of farm girls—from the 4-H farm lifestyle to young migrant workers in the fields, just trying to deal—during the Great Depression.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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