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Two young spinners in Catawba Cotton Mills.
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
- Date created
- December 1908
- Location
- Newton, North Carolina.
- 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 2)
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- Search LEARN NC for Catawba County, child labor, history, North Carolina, and textile mills.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
In this sepia photograph taken in December of 1908, a young girl with her hair pulled back is seen standing at a spinning machine in a textile mill.There is cotton lint on the wooden floor boards under the machines. Two women can be seen working at the spinning machines in the background. A young girl stands by the windows on the left away from the spinning machines. She is looking at the photographer.
