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Notes about this image:Cartoon. Children working in textile mill are contrasted with imaginary happy children playing outside. Child labor. "The nation could have no better 'birth of freedom' than to turn every mill-child loose to run on the hills and play."
Citation:Copyright holder unknown. Edwin Markham et al., "Children in Bondage," 1914, reprint 1969, opp. p. 164. 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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