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Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills

Two young spinners

Young girls worked the spinning machines at textile mills. This girl was employed by the Catawba Cotton Mills in Newton.

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

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