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.
The New York State Training School for Girls, 1904-1975
Posts Tagged: Work
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Possum Power
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.
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Young Miners
These sorrowful photographs by Lewis Hine show the work life of young boys during a time when child labor was exploited.
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Victory Youth Farmers
Homegrown WWII propaganda inviting young people to farm for victory.
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Mill Girl Murder
From the 1830s-1850s young women in their late teens to early twenties flocked to New England to work in factories.
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Deep End
Deep End is about love in the most unlikely, and humid, of places.
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Teenage Truffle
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.
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Farm Girls
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.