Stamp to Honor Efforts to Wipe Out Child Labor

Little Addie Laird looks intently at the viewer, standing in front of the row of cotton bobbins at the Vermont mill where she works. She is 12 years old. The year is 1910.

Addie’s work-stained smock and serious stare are the focus of a new U.S. postage stamp announced Monday commemorating the efforts early in this century to eliminate child labor.

The stamp is part of a series that will be released Feb. 3 focusing on the people and events of the first two decades of the century.