Cotton Mill,Augusta,Georgia,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,Textile Mill Workers

Title: Flashlight photos of 5 boys who work in Augusta (Ga.) cotton mill. Supt. refused to let me go through the mill so I went there at 6 P.M. and under cover of darkness got these boys as they came out. Then we went out back of the bill boards and took the photo. 3 of the smallest of there 5 boys been there 3 years. 1 other for 4 yrs. Many children in this mill. I saw about 25 boys & girls from 9 to 14 years come out at the closing hour. Location: Augusta, Georgia. / L.W. Hine.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1909 January 14.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 0489.
Subjects:
Boys.
Textile mill workers.
Cotton industry.
United States--Georgia--Augusta.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004001389/PP/
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