Tea & Talk – Child Labor in the Gilded Age

Join author Chaim Rosenberg and learn how two million American children under 16 – some as young as four or five – at the close of the 19th century were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. He will speak at Ventfort Hall on August 15 at 4 pm. A tea will follow his presentation.

His talk will highlight the wonderful pictures of child workers in America taken early in the 20th Century by Lewis Hine. Children as young as five years were put to work …