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Housing conditions of the workers in Cannon Mills, Concord, North Carolina
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
- Date created
- October 1912
- Location
- Concord, 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 10)
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- Search LEARN NC for 20th century, Cabarrus County, history, housing, living conditions, North Carolina, and textile mills.
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This photograph of mill town housing in Concord, North Carolina shows the conditions that workers for the Cannon textile mill lived in. The clapboard houses are very small and sit in the shadow of the mill with its smokestacks billowing dark smoke. The yards around the house are unkempt with scruffy patches of weeds. The photographer, Lewis Wickes Hine, said that he took this picture to contrast with the homes and gardens sometimes shown from the ’show mills’ of the state.”
