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FACES OF CHILD LABOR: Harry McShane, Cincinnati, Ohio

9/13/2016

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Harry McShane’s life was changed forever at the age of 16 when he fell into the machine that was making springs at the C.L. Greeno Company at 312 Yeatman Alley, Cincinnati, Ohio.  Lewis Wickes Hines, photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, captured the first time he stood unassisted since his accident.  He slipped in oil on the floor and fell into a machine where the springs where made.  His arm was torn off and kneecap broken. Harry had worked for the spring manufacturer since he was 14 years old.
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In October, 1908 Harry filed suit in Hamilton County Superior Court in Cincinnati asking for $10,000 in damages from C.L. Greeno.  The company was established in 1875 and appeared to prosper well into the 1920s until the auto industry bested the carriage manufacturers.  He eventually worked as a brakeman for the railroad but never married.  Harry died May 29, 1975 at the age of 85 years old and was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.

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