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One of the smallest doffers at Cherryville Manufacturing Company
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
- 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 5)
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- Search LEARN NC for child labor, Gaston County, history, North Carolina, and textile mills.
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One of the smallest children, a doffer, at the Cherryville Manufacturing Company can be seen in this photograph. He is wearing shorts and is barefoot and appears to be polishing a wooden stand which holds some of the spinning machinery. A young girl wearing a gingham apron looks at a bobbin of spun thread in her hands. Several older boys stand near the younger boy, one has a bunch of looped cotton yarn slung over his shoulders.
