Photographs of children working long hours in Vermont woolen mills helped convince U.S. lawmakers to impose new limits on this day in history.

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In 1960, David J. Blow was discharged from his U.S. Army post in Germany and, with no plan in mind, headed back to his hometown of Burlington. He spent days working at the University of Vermont’s ...