Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columbus, Ga. Most of them had been working all day and had an hour for supper and were going back into the mill (6:00 P.M.) to work until 8 P.M. as they have done several nights this week and for some time past. I found four ten year olds and several of 11 and 12 working in the evening after supper and they said it was a regular thing. Terrell Butler, 10 yrs. old, 1114 21st Street. Been working off and on 1 yr. Marvin Williams, 11 yrs. old been working one year part of the time at night. Lawrence Webb, 12 yrs. old, Jack Wright, 15 yrs., working 3 yrs, couldn't write his own name. Are working nights now, as well as the following who were not in these photos. Gordon Stone, 10 yrs. old, Rufus Matthews, 10 yrs. old, works before and after school and nights some. Lives 1171 27th Street, and Harry McElroy, 10 yrs. old. Nights. Location: Columbus, Georgia.
Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columbus, Ga. Most of them had been working all day and had an hour for supper and were going back into the mill (6:00 P.M.) to work until 8 P.M. as they have done several nights this week and for some time past. I found four ten year olds and several of 11 and 12 working in the evening after supper and they said it was a regular thing. Terrell Butler, 10 yrs. old, 1114 21st Street. Been working off and on 1 yr. Marvin Williams, 11 yrs. old been working one year part of the time at night. Lawrence Webb, 12 yrs. old, Jack Wright, 15 yrs., working 3 yrs, couldn't write his own name. Are working nights now, as well as the following who were not in these photos. Gordon Stone, 10 yrs. old, Rufus Matthews, 10 yrs. old, works before and after school and nights some. Lives 1171 27th Street, and Harry McElroy, 10 yrs. old. Nights. Location: Columbus, Georgia.
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3433. Text on the caption card is badly smudged. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Local Identifier:
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3433 [P&P] nclc 02814 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.02814
