Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills
Charlie and Ollie Allen
Charlie and Ollie Allen had been working at the Harriet Cotton Mills when this photograph was taken. Ollie was then about ten years old. Hine wrote that “the sanitary conditions are frightful.” Note that the front porch is held up by a slab of rock.
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
