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Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills

A heavy load

Young doffers push bins of full bobbins past the spinning machines at Trenton Mills in Gastonia.

Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.

Children working in a textile mill

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