- Collection:
- National Child Labor Committee Collection
- Title:
- All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 yrs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 yrs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or looping. Fifteen year old boys here are making $6. to $9. a week, "if they're speedy." Location: Rome, Georgia.
- Creator:
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
- Date of Original:
- 1913-04
- Subject:
- Boys
Textile mill workers
Girls
Hosiery industry - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 3348.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. - Local Identifier:
- LOT 7479, v. 5, no. 3348 [P&P]
nclc 02739 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.02739 - Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2018677529
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
