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Doffers in Trenton Mills, Gastonia, N.C.
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
- Date created
- November 1908
- Location
- Gastonia, N.C.
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2009. Terms of use
- Source
- Original image housed by Library of Congress
See this photograph in context
- Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills: The photographs of Lewis Hine show the lives and work of children in North Carolina's textile mill villages in the first decades of the twentieth century. (Page 4)
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- Search LEARN NC for child labor, Gaston County, history, North Carolina, and textile mills.
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Four young boys called doffers can be seen pushing bins full of bobbins of thread through a textile mill in this photograph taken in 1908. Doffers replaced the full bobbins with empty ones in the spinning area of the mill. The sepia photograph shows the spinning machines in the background.
