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Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills

One of the smallest doffers

The boy in this photograph was identified as “one of the smallest doffers” in the Cherryville Manufacturing Company. Like most of the younger children in Hine’s photographs, he is barefoot.

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

Children work at the Cherryville Manufacturing Company, a textile mill in Cherryville, N.C.

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