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Ivey Mill Company, Hickory, N.C: Some doffers and Sweepers
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
- Date created
- November 1908
- Location
- Hickory, NC
- 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 1)
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Seven young boys pose for the photographer in the Ivy Mill Company, a textile mill in Hickory, N.C. Most of the boys, ranging in age and height, are wearing short pants with suspenders and long, dark stockings. The tall boy in the middle of the group has cotton lint covering his pants. He is holding a small, black piece of machinery in front on him. The smallest boy at the far right is wearing overalls and is holding a bobbin of thread in his right hand. All the boys are wearing caps.
