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| November 4, 2008 DOL Home > OASAM > Contact Us > Child Reform Stamp |  |
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Child Labor Reform Stamp
This postage stamp bears a picture of a little girl identified as Addie Laird. It was taken by the noted photographer of child labor conditions, Louis Wickes Hine. The title of the original photograph is Anemic Little Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, North Pownal, Vermont, August 1910. The accompanying caption, from the records of the National Child Labor Committee, reads:
The U.S. Postal Service issued this first stamp to commemorate Child
Labor Reform in 1998; it was unveiled in January of that year by Secretary of
Labor Alexis M. Herman. The Postal Service presented the DOL Library with a
framed enlargement of the stamp in acknowledgment of the Library's
participation in the unveiling ceremonies with exhibits and bibliographies on
child labor. It remains on permanent display in the Library. For more background on Addie, go to http://www.elizabethwinthrop.com/searchforaddie.html. |
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