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Subject Child laborers

1. Dinner Toters, Columbus, Ga. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

2. Dinner Toters, Columbus, Ga. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

3. "Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ren [i.e., ten] or more a day. They go around in th[e] mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Ph[o]enix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

4. "Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Ph[o]enix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

5. "Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Ph[o]enix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

6. "Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Pho[e]nix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

7. Photo of Ordinary's Certificate, Columbus, Ga. giving permit to Rolly Strickland, 9 years old, (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me "That was likely a clerical error," but I found five of these "errors" issued to children under 10 years old., one for a child aged 8. (The latter was later marked 'Void' but [none] of the rest were.) Rolly's teacher told me the family had moved but that the boy was a mere baby with a lisp. The issuing of the certificate is very unbusinesslike. (See Vaughn's Report, Georgia, 1913.) The Ordinary said, "I'm a practical Man! The cotton mill people are the poorest paid workers in the country. They have to put their children into the mills." The Associated Charities Records show five older children working in the mill. One of 25 years, one of 23, one of 18, 16, 11. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

8. Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Bronson Beers, 9 years old, (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me "That was likely a clerical error." but I found five of these "errors" issued to children under 10 years old, one for child aged 8. (The latter was later marked 'Void' but none of the rest were.)] Rolly's teacher told me the family had moved, but that the boy was a mere baby with a lisp. The issuing of the certificates is very unbusinesslike. (See Vaughn's report, Georgia, 1913.) The Ordinary said, "I'm a practical Man! The cotton mill people are the poorest paid workers in the country. They have to put their children into the mills." Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

9. Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Curtis Wynn, 9 years old (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me "That was likely a clerical error." but I found five of these "errors" issued to children under 10 years old, one for a child aged 8. (The latter was later marked 'Void' but none of the rest were.) Rolly's teacher told me the family had moved, but that the boy was a mere baby with a lisp. The issuing of the certificates is very unbusinesslike. (See Vaughn's Report, Georgia. The Ordinary said, "I'm a practical man! The cotton mill people are the poorest paid workers in the country. They have to put their children into the mills." Location: [Columbus?], Georgia.

Creator:: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Date of Original:: 1913-04
Collection:: National Child Labor Committee Collection
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

10. [Photograph of a group African Americans in a cotton field in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library