- Collection:
- National Child Labor Committee Collection
- Title:
- Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Bronson Beers, 9 years old, (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me "That was likely a clerical error." but I found five of these "errors" issued to children under 10 years old, one for child aged 8. (The latter was later marked 'Void' but none of the rest were.)] Rolly's teacher told me the family had moved, but that the boy was a mere baby with a lisp. The issuing of the certificates is very unbusinesslike. (See Vaughn's report, Georgia, 1913.) The Ordinary said, "I'm a practical Man! The cotton mill people are the poorest paid workers in the country. They have to put their children into the mills." Location: Columbus, Georgia.
- Creator:
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
- Date of Original:
- 1913-04
- Subject:
- Child laborers
Permits - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 3448.
No date or location recorded on caption card; based on captions for photos with neighboring numbers. Phrases "9 years old" and "have to" underlined on caption card.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. - Local Identifier:
- LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3448 [P&P]
nclc 02829 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.02829 - Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2018674445
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
