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Doffers in Cherryville Manufacturing Company, 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
- Cherryville, North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2009. Terms of use
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 3)
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Three young boys called doffers stand in front of a spinning machine in the Cherryville Manufacturing Company. Doffers took bobbins full of thread off the machines and replaced them with empty bobbins. In this sepia photograph, the boy closest to the photographer is seen wearing shorts and is barefoot. The boy next to him has on long overalls and shoes. He has a bandage under his chin held on with a cloth that is tied on top of his head. The third boy is barely visible. There are two carts against the wall behind them. One cart contains full bobbins, while the other contains empty bobbins.
