Little girls work in the interior of a tobacco shed
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of the United States National Child Labor Committee.
- Date created
- August 9, 1917
- Location
- Hazardville, Connecticut
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2009. Terms of use
- Source
- Original image housed by Library of Congress
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- 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 9)
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Child laborers were hired for many types of jobs. In this photograph, little girls, ages eight, nine, and ten work in a tobacco barn. Sunlight is streaming in through large cracks between the wooden planks of the walls. They are standing in back of wooden tables and they are stringing tobacco leaves together in bunches for drying. All the little girls are wearing dresses and have big bows in their hair.
The photographer wrote: “The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs.”
