Hidden History Files

Some people become part of each other’s entire lifetime.

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For many children, work came before childhood.

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Some jobs demanded almost everything people had.

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Hard work once looked very different in America.

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For many families during the Great Depression, childhood and responsibility existed at the same time.

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For many children in the early 1900s, school focused more on obedience and survival than self-expression.

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For many children in industrial America, survival mattered more than growing up slowly.

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For many workers in the early 1900s, dangerous labor wasn’t temporary.

It was life.

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