Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills
Girls stringing tobacco
Some farmers hired children for seasonal work. Here, three girls, aged eight, nine, and ten, string tobacco leaves. The ten year-old made 50 cents a day. The farm employed 12 workers aged 8 to 14, and another 15 who were over 15 years old.
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
