- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Young Mill Worker
- Publisher:
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), LC-DIG-nclc-01638
- Date of Original:
- 1909
- Subject:
- Girls--Georgia
Textile factories--Georgia
Textile industry--Georgia
Factories--Georgia
Spinning machinery--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A young girl, pictured in 1909, works as a spinner in a Georgia cotton mill. Children were a signficant presence in the state's textile mills, accounting for 24 percent of the workforce in 1890.
Image of a young girl, pictured in 1909, working as a spinner in a Georgia cotton mill. She stands between a long machine filled with bobbins and a wall of windows. She has her left hand on her hip, and she faces forward.
Children were a significant presence in Georgia's textile mills, accounting for 24 percent of the workforce in 1890. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/textile-industry/m-10663/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/textile-industry
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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