Mr. Smith,Wylie Mill,Chester,South Carolina,SC,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine

Title: Mr. Smith, overseer in Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. He will not let his children work in the mill. Says it is no place for them. Plenty of children below 12 in his mill. He said that it is a common practice all through the South for employers in cotton mills to evade the child labor law by allowing young children to help their older sisters or brothers. The name of the small child is not on the books. 'That is the way we manage it.' Nov. 28/08. Location: Chester, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1908 November 28.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 0316.
Subjects:
Families.
Supervisors.
Textile industry.
United States--South Carolina--Chester.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004000760/PP/
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