Select "Records and Full text" to search both the metadata and available full text.
Select "Records" to search only metadata for items. (All items have metadata.)
Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. (Not all items have full text)
Use quotation marks to search as a phrase
Use "+" before a term to make it required (Otherwise results matching only some of your terms may be included)
Use "-" before a word or phrase to exclude
Use "OR", "AND", and "NOT" (must be capitalized) to create complex boolean logic
You can use parentheses in your complex expressions
Truncation and wildcards are not supported
| This Search |
Will Find |
| “Floyd Jillson” |
Records that have the name Floyd Jillson |
| girl scouts +low |
Records with the word low that also contain girl and/or scouts |
| brunswick -stew |
Records with the word Brunswick but not the word stew |
| “African American” AND art |
Records containing the phrase “African American” and art |
| bread AND (butter OR fruit) |
Records containing the words bread and butter or bread and fruit |
![The Browning school near Dublin. Small number of pupils very poorly housed. Location: Dublin [vicinity], Georgia.](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673966.jpg)
![Children thrashing corn during school hours on a farm near Dublin. Many such light occupations fall to the lot of the Georgia child. Location: Dublin [vicinity], Georgia.](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673961.jpg)
![Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young. Location: Atlanta, Georgia.](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673955.jpg)
![[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia]](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673965.jpg)
![[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia].](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673956.jpg)
![[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia]](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673959.jpg)
![Mt. Pleasant school near Valdosta. Typical of the country schools of many parts of Georgia. Location: Valdosta [vicinity], Georgia.](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673962.jpg)
![[Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks cotton. The father said: "He ain't very fast." Said he was 10 years old. The sister said he was 12 years old.] Location: Valdosta, Georgia.](https://dlg.usg.edu/thumbnails/loc/national-child-labor-committee/loc_national-child-labor-committee_2018673963.jpg)