The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:Child labor. A small girl lies dead at the foot of a monument to "Profit." "Childhood is sacrificed daily that profit may flow from every turn of a mill-wheel." Mary Ellen Sigsbee cartoon. Sigsbee was a socialist and feminist, daughter of the captain of the USS Maine. 1914.
Citation:Copyright holder unknown. In Edwin Markham et al., "Children in Bondage," 1914, reprint 1969, frontispiece. 11.2.1, 11.2.9
Standard:11.2-9.00 the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children’s Bureau, the 16th Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt)

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