- Collection:
- National Child Labor Committee Collection
- Title:
- Flashlight photos of 5 boys who work in Augusta (Ga.) cotton mill. Supt. refused to let me go through the mill so I went there at 6 P.M. and under cover of darkness got these boys as they came out. Then we went out back of the bill boards and took the photo. 3 of the smallest of there 5 boys been there 3 years. 1 other for 4 yrs. Many children in this mill. I saw about 25 boys & girls from 9 to 14 years come out at the closing hour. Location: Augusta, Georgia.
- Creator:
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
- Date of Original:
- 1909-01-14
- Subject:
- Boys
Textile mill workers
Cotton industry - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 489.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. - Local Identifier:
- LOT 7479, v. 1, no. 0489 [P&P]
nclc 01582 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.01582 - Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2018674999
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
