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King Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga.

King Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga.

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[Cotton gin (?), in interior of mill, probably in Tashkent]

[Cotton gin (?), in interior of mill, probably in Tashkent]

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[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent]

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

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One of the doffers in Cawtaba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C.  Location: Newton, North Carolina.

One of the doffers in Cawtaba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: New...

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Noon hour, Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C.  Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.

Noon hour, Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Location: Lancaster, South Ca...

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N. W. Bigham--In mill 5 years. (Boy) Brown Morison--In mill 2-1/2 years. 13 years old. Doffs--75 cents a day. Eureka Cotton Mills, Witness S.R. Hine.  Location: Chester, South Carolina.

N. W. Bigham--In mill 5 years. (Boy) Brown Morison--In mill 2-1/2 year...

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Going home from the Manchester Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Not allowed to photo inside. See photos 517 to 520.  Location: Macon, Georgia.

Going home from the Manchester Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Not allowed to ...

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Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Boy with hands in pockets been in mill 1 year. See label #538.  Location: Macon, Georgia.

Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Boy with hands in pockets been in mill 1...

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In the spool cotton dept. Bibb Mfg. Co., No. 1, Macon, Ga. Jan. 19, 1909. L.W.H. Location: Macon, Georgia

In the spool cotton dept. Bibb Mfg. Co., No. 1, Macon, Ga. Jan. 19, 19...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 524. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Hercules Cotton Mills, Querétaro

Hercules Cotton Mills, Querétaro

J148789(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. No. 071650.

Doffers in Pell City Cotton Mill.  Location: Pell City, Alabama.

Doffers in Pell City Cotton Mill. Location: Pell City, Alabama.

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Young doffers in Elk Cotton Mills.  Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young doffers in Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

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Group of doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill arranged by the Overseer. Superintendent of the mill is also Mayor of Pell City.  Location: Pell City, Alabama.

Group of doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill arranged by the Over...

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Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, "I've been to school my eight weeks. Work now. Been workin' a year." (None of them, even the tiniest, would admit being under twelve.) Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1804. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley.  Location: McComb, Mississippi.

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band bo...

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Some of the young workers in Schoolfield Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia The very young would not be photographed.  Location: Danville, Virginia.

Some of the young workers in Schoolfield Cotton Mills, Danville, Virgi...

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Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are: Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve years old but doesn't appear to be. Zamie Scott, one year working. Guy Sanders, and Luceon Kendreck.  Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest o...

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Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McCom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2085. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2083. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10:00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, working, but could not get them out.  Location: Clayton, North Carolina.

Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayt...

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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked with a boy recently who said he was ten years old and works in the Clayton Cotton Mill, also that others the same age worked. Here they are. I couldn't get the youngest girls in the photos. Clayton is but a short ride from the State Capitol. (The Superintendent watched the photographing without comment.)  Location: Clayton, North Carolina.

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to...

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Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions.  Location: Greensboro, North Carolina.

Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the bea...

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Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10:00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, working, but could not get them out. Location: Clayton, North Carolina

Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayt...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3089. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked with a boy recently who said he was ten years old and works in the Clayton Cotton Mill, also that others the same age worked. Here they are. I couldn't get the youngest girls in the photos. Clayton is but a short ride from the State Capitol. (The Superintendent watched the photographing without comment.) Location: Clayton, North Carolina

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3101. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill.  Location: Dallas, Texas.

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas.

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[Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail. See Alabama report.]  Location: [Mobile, Alabama].

[Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail....

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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are surely under 12 years old. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina

Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3859. Hine no. 3876. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Spinning cotton yarn in the Great Textile Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Spinning cotton yarn in the Great Textile Mills, Lawrence, Massachuset...

Two women working in foreground. J218087 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22080.

Pioneer School #13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd--7 months term. Miss Lela Ginsinger, Principal (been here 2 years). Photo shows only 6 children present and 2 teachers in the third week of school. Expect 24 pupils. All absences are due to cotton. A few of the larger ones will be out in the Spring for cotton. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.  Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Pioneer School #13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd--...

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Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills.  Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location...

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Cotton Seed Storage Building, End of Wall Street between State Route 124, East Lake Drive & Lakeshore Road, Braselton, Jackson County, GA

Cotton Seed Storage Building, End of Wall Street between State Route 1...

Significance: The Cotton Seed Storage Building is a contributing historic resource in the Braselton National Register of Historic Places District and represents the agricultural and industrial significance of t... More

[Nurse in Hospital Linen Closet, Pepperell Manufacturing Company]

[Nurse in Hospital Linen Closet, Pepperell Manufacturing Company]

Title: [Nurse in Hospital Linen Closet, Pepperell Manufacturing Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: February 1943..Series: Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies.Negative Series: 2... More

One of the doffers Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Nov. 10, 1908. L.W.H. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina

One of the doffers Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Nov. 10, 190...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 267. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

One of the workers (not the youngest) in the Kosciusko, Miss., cotton mills. The superintendent objected to my photographing the workers. Location: Kosciusko, Mississippi

One of the workers (not the youngest) in the Kosciusko, Miss., cotton ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3706. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Many more as small as she. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina

Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Many more as small as she. Loc...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 346. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour, Manchester Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photos 517 to 520. Location: Macon, Georgia

Noon hour, Manchester Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photos 517 to 520. L...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 519. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Tupelo (Miss) Cotton Mill and Village. Conditions rather good. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi

Tupelo (Miss) Cotton Mill and Village. Conditions rather good. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2027-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Cotton yard at C.R.R. Savannah, GA. Stereoscope Card.

Cotton yard at C.R.R. Savannah, GA. Stereoscope Card.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Beaming frames, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C.

Beaming frames, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C.

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Slashers, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C.

Slashers, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C.

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Spinning frames, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C.

Spinning frames, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N.C.

North Carolina stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker w... More

A Visit to White Oak Cotton Mills, [...] (front card).

A Visit to White Oak Cotton Mills, [...] (front card).

North Carolina stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker w... More

In the great spinning-room - 104,000 spindles - Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, S.C.

In the great spinning-room - 104,000 spindles - Olympian Cotton Mills,...

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Draying cotton at C.R.R., Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

Draying cotton at C.R.R., Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

Local Accession Number: 06_11_001987.Title: Draying cotton at C.R.R..Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints.Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate).Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : ste... More

Slubbing yarn, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

Slubbing yarn, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

Local Accession Number: 06_11_002188.Title: Slubbing yarn.Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints.Created/Published: Meadville, Pa. ; New York, N.Y. ; Portland, Oregon ; London, Eng. ; Sydney, Aus. : Keystone ... More

Khludov Factory in Yegoryevsk

Khludov Factory in Yegoryevsk

In the 19th century, Yegoryevsk became the center of the textile industry. The Khludov brothers cotton factory has been in operation since 1845. 1897-1910. Фабрика Хлудова в Егорьевске

Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1913-1923.) (20498194635)

Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1913-1923.) (204981946...

Title: Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Identifier: bulletinofusd10261050unit (find matches) Year: 1913-1923. (1910s) Authors: United States. Dept. of Agriculture Subjects: Agriculture; Agricult... More

Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of great travelers in southern climes (1894) (14760956031)

Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adven...

Identifier: daringdeedsintro00feat (find matches) Title: Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of gr... More

Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and (14784401142)

Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, w...

Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches) Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embr... More

Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 (1887) (14596404768)

Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 (188...

Identifier: harpersnew72various (find matches) Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: various Subjects: Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers ... More

Illustrated catalogue of cotton machinery built by Howard and Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd., Pawtucket, R.I., U.S.A. - opening, picking, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, twisting and (14782454382)

Illustrated catalogue of cotton machinery built by Howard and Bullough...

Identifier: illustratedcatal00howa (find matches) Title: Illustrated catalogue of cotton machinery built by Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd., Pawtucket, R.I., U.S.A. : opening, picking, cardin... More

Technology of textile design. Being a practical treatise on the construction and application of weaves for all textile fabrics, with minute reference to the latest inventions for weaving. Containing (14766115191)

Technology of textile design. Being a practical treatise on the constr...

Identifier: technologyoftext1889poss2 (find matches) Title: Technology of textile design. Being a practical treatise on the construction and application of weaves for all textile fabrics, with minute referenc... More

Textile school catalog, 1909-1910 (1909) (14797249683)

Textile school catalog, 1909-1910 (1909) (14797249683)

Identifier: textileschoolcat0910penn (find matches) Title: Textile school catalog, 1909-1910 Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art Subjects: Pennsylvania Museum and Sc... More

The dictionary of needlework - an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the (14801757713)

The dictionary of needlework - an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, an...

Beaded edging on pillow lace Identifier: dictionaryofnee01caul (find matches) Title: The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of a... More

The Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society (1906) (14802182913)

The Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Soc...

Identifier: tropicalagricul261906ceyl (find matches) Title: The Tropical agriculturist and magazine of the Ceylon Agricultural Society Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Ceylon Agricultural Society Subjects: Agric... More

Roberts-Dolezal Farmstead, 75 miles northeast of the intersection of CR27 and FM 1722, Garrett, Ellis County, TX

Roberts-Dolezal Farmstead, 75 miles northeast of the intersection of C...

Significance: The farmstead is symbolic of the assimilation of Eastern Europeans into early twentieth century American culture. Although the front of the house resembles a 1920s craftsman bungalow, the original... More

Spooler tenders - 14 and 16 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills.  Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Spooler tenders - 14 and 16 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: ...

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"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mill settlement at Avondale. These houses harbor the scum of the negroes and whites of the vicinity, and are separated from the mill village by a shallow ditch, which gave Gov. Comer, owner of the mills, the excuse that they were not on the mill property when the question of their removal was taken to him a while ago. A prominent social worker told me that not only do the mill people patronize these resorts, but that the broken down mill girls end up in these houses and that there are, on court record, three cases within a year of girls under fourteen years of age ruined in Hell's Half Acre. Told me, that there are innumerable instances showing the bad moral influence of the cotton mill settlement. (See report on Avondale conditions).  Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mi...

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J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County, AL

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County...

Significance: With various frame outbuildings (including a seed house, a corn crib and two other storage buildings) and the plantation store extent, J.A. Minter & Son's farm is representative of the plantation ... More

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County, AL

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County...

Significance: With various frame outbuildings (including a seed house, a corn crib and two other storage buildings) and the plantation store extent, J.A. Minter & Son's farm is representative of the plantation ... More

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County, AL

J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County...

Significance: With various frame outbuildings (including a seed house, a corn crib and two other storage buildings) and the plantation store extent, J.A. Minter & Son's farm is representative of the plantation ... More

Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C.  Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.

Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Location: Lancaster, South Ca...

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Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This 1829 building is a typical Rhode Island stone cotton mill of the first ha... More

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This 1829 building is a typical Rhode Island stone cotton mill of the first ha... More

Cotton gin at Dahomey, Miss. - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

Cotton gin at Dahomey, Miss. - Detroit publishing company. Public doma...

Interior scene showing foreman and several laborers operating cotton gins. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Company. No. 1572.

Bates Manufacturing Company, Storehouse, Northeast corner of Chestnut Street & Hines Alley, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME

Bates Manufacturing Company, Storehouse, Northeast corner of Chestnut ...

Significance: This cotton storage building was built by the Bates Manufacturing Company to store large shipments of cotton required to supply the newly developed Jacquard Weaving Mill No. 6, constructed in 1892... More

Bates Manufacturing Company, Storehouse, Northeast corner of Chestnut Street & Hines Alley, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME

Bates Manufacturing Company, Storehouse, Northeast corner of Chestnut ...

Significance: This cotton storage building was built by the Bates Manufacturing Company to store large shipments of cotton required to supply the newly developed Jacquard Weaving Mill No. 6, constructed in 1892... More

"Drawing-in" -15 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills.  Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

"Drawing-in" -15 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Mass...

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Some of the adults Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga.  Location: Macon, Georgia.

Some of the adults Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Location: Macon, Geo...

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Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clop...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Main House, 140 feet southwest of Curry Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Main House, 140 feet southwest of Curry Ro...

STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Main House is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more ... More

Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the youngest workers.  Location: Meridian, Mississippi.

Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the you...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many.  Location: Danville, Virginia.

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of s...

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[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent]

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

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"OUR BABY DOFFER" they called him. Donnie Cole. Has been doffing for some months. When asked his age, he hesitated, then said, "I'm Twelve." Another young boy said "He can't work unless he's twelve." Child Labor regulations were conspicuously posted in the mill.  Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

"OUR BABY DOFFER" they called him. Donnie Cole. Has been doffing for s...

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Dallas Compress Company, 2010 Alabama Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Dallas Compress Company, 2010 Alabama Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: The warehouse complex consists of 25 c. 1870s and c. 1880s brick warehouses with 12 inch firewalls and fire doors. The buildings flank Alabama Avenue and are contained between Alabama Avenue, Sel... More

White Oak Cotton Mill School. Greensboro, N.C.

White Oak Cotton Mill School. Greensboro, N.C.

North Carolina stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker w... More

Noon hour Brookside Cotton Mills. Not the smallest youngsters.  Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Noon hour Brookside Cotton Mills. Not the smallest youngsters. Locati...

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Cotton Press, Near Routes 917 & 38, moved from Berry's Crossroads, Latta, Dillon County, SC

Cotton Press, Near Routes 917 & 38, moved from Berry's Crossroads, Lat...

Significance: Significant in the field of rural industry as the only known remaining cotton press of this era in South Carolina; the primary machine which pressed and baled ginned cotton. Survey number: HAER S... More

John Tidwell, a Cotton Mill Product. Doffer in Avondale Mills. Many of these youngsters smoke.  Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

John Tidwell, a Cotton Mill Product. Doffer in Avondale Mills. Many of...

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Spinners & doffers in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as small. Dec. 3/08. Sara R. Hine, Witness.  Location: Newberry, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Spinners & doffers in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as sm...

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Langdale Cotton Mill, Powerhouse & Dam, 5910 Nineteenth Avenue, Valley, Chambers County, AL

Langdale Cotton Mill, Powerhouse & Dam, 5910 Nineteenth Avenue, Valley...

Significance: The Langdale Cotton Mill is part of the Langdale Historic District. According to the National Register nomination, the mill consists of an "excellent group of mill buildings from the late-nineteet... More

Langdale Cotton Mill, Powerhouse & Dam, 5910 Nineteenth Avenue, Valley, Chambers County, AL

Langdale Cotton Mill, Powerhouse & Dam, 5910 Nineteenth Avenue, Valley...

Significance: The Langdale Cotton Mill is part of the Langdale Historic District. According to the National Register nomination, the mill consists of an "excellent group of mill buildings from the late-nineteet... More

Tube boy - 16 years - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills.  Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Tube boy - 16 years - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Ad...

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Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phas... More

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phas... More

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phas... More

During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant. Shafter, California

During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his ...

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Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Significance: Blue Spring Cotton Mill was constructed in 1885 and produced 4 x 4 cotton sheeting, along with other products. Survey number: HAER AL-189 Building/structure dates: 1999 Demolished Building/stru... More

It seems a pity that some of the spinning frames are so large that the children cannot operate them. Catawba Cotton Mills.  Location: Newton, North Carolina.

It seems a pity that some of the spinning frames are so large that the...

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Charlie Lott a thirteen year old doffer in cotton mill at West. His Family Record says born March 12, 1900. Has been working for a year in the mill at Laurel, Miss. Came here recently and was put to work at once although he was in bad shape physically. Maybe malaria, maybe hookworm.  Location: West, Texas.

Charlie Lott a thirteen year old doffer in cotton mill at West. His Fa...

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Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry County, AL

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry County, AL

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry County, AL

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry County, AL

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry County, AL

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss.  Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Locat...

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Group of mill folks. All ages. Salisbury Cotton Mills, N.C.  Location: Salisbury, North Carolina.

Group of mill folks. All ages. Salisbury Cotton Mills, N.C. Location:...

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Khlopkovoe proizvodstvo. Pletenie tes'my. (zigbaf)

Khlopkovoe proizvodstvo. Pletenie tes'my. (zigbaf)

"Zigbaf" translated as the Persian expression for wicker braiding. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 4.

Khlopkovoe proizvodstvo. Razbivka vaty prut'iami (pakhta sazi)

Khlopkovoe proizvodstvo. Razbivka vaty prut'iami (pakhta sazi)

Photograph shows two women in traditional dress, seated on the ground, spreading cotton wadding with twigs. "Pakhta sazi" translated as the Persian expression for: refining cotton. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'b... More

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