Photograph: One woman and four children seated around a table working. They are making violets. It's hard to make out what materials they are using, but presumably ribbon is one. A pot of glue is visible on the table. Cramped, but respectable home. Photograph: A woman and her two children, aged 7 and 13, are working at a table. The woman is at a sewing machine with a girl on each side. They are making garters, perhaps for men's socks. Cramped, but respectable home.
Photograph: A woman is seated at a table, a baby in her lap and a small toddler standing next to her. The woman is working. A young boy is seated opposite her is also working. Between them is a pile of rolled cigarette papers that they have been making. On the wall is a 1909 calendar. The caption says the place is dirty, which seems a bit unfair. In any case, this family is living in much poorer circumstances than the families in the other pictures. Photograph: A woman and two children at a table at night. One child is a young toddler, not working. The other child is a boy, doing the same work as his mother, sewing 'tapes' (some bit of fabric) on gloves. Cramped, but respectable home.

Photographs of women and their children doing piecework: Lewis Wickes Hine took these for the National Child Labor Committee in New York City in January and February 1908. See individual captions below.

[1] 122 Sullivan St. 2nd Floor rear. Leveroni family. Earn 4 cents a gross making violets. Can make 20 gross a day when children work all day. Father has work. Mrs. Leveroni; Tessie Leveroni, age 9; Stephen Leveroni, age 6; Margaret Leveroni, age 7; Josephine Cordono, age 10. These children work on Saturdays on afternoons after 3 o’clock, and evenings until 8 or 9.

[2] Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girls attend school. Making garters for Liberty Garter works, 413 Broadway. Mother, a widow, earns 75 cents a day by working all day until 12 at night. Bessie works until 10 P.M. Sophie until 9 P.M. They expected to work until 10 P.M. to finish the job, although they did not know when more work would come in. Witness Mrs. Hosford.

[3] Widow & boy rolling papers for cigarettes in a dirty N.Y. tenement.

[4] Late at night. Sewing tapes on gloves. The boy helps. Family of five sleep in room where the work is done.

These photos are part of the National Child Labor Committee Collection held by the Library of Congress.