Boys playing a game of marbles
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
- Date created
- December 1908
- Location
- Salisbury, 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 12)
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A group of boys, all mill workers, watch while another, wearing a light colored tie, crouches down and shoots a marble during a game in Salisbury, North Carolina. The boy shooting the marbles is Henry Dedman, a warper at the mill and has been working there for five years. The warp is the lengthwise yarn in a loom. The only time the boys have for playing is on Sundays. The description with the photograph reads that Henry’s grandmother said “I don’t like to have ‘ em play marbles on Sunday, but when can they play?” “Yes he stands the mill work pretty well. Early getting’ up is the makin’ of ‘em.”
