All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 yrs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 y[ea]rs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or looping. Fifteen year old boys here are making from $6 to $9 a week, "if they're speedy." Location: Rome, Georgia.

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 y[ea]rs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or looping. Fifteen year old boys here are making from $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
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. 3350.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Local Identifier:: LOT 7479, v. 5, no. 3350 [P&P]
nclc 02741 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.02741
Metadata URL:: http://www.loc.gov/item/2018677531
Language:: eng
Original Collection:: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress
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