Sanford Cotton Mill,Sanford,North Carolina,Accident Case,Carl Thornburg,1914

Title: Sanford Cotton Mill. Accident case. Carl Thornburg a 12 year old boy who went to work at 11. A few weeks ago he caught his arm in the 'lapper' machine, and broke it in 2 places. He said: 'I sure didn't mean to. Was jus goin through the lapper room an fust thing I knew everything went black.' The family is hard-up. Father is a paralytic. Here is a real chance for a mill to do a benevolent deed by making some recompense to this crippled boy and his paralytic father. They think it's charity to give a boy work under legal age, but when he is injured they forget that side of it. No suggestion of any kind of recompense has been heard. Jim Browning said he was 12 years old, but that is doubtful. Has worked 6 months here; gets 50 cents a day. Is in the 2nd grade at school. Location: Sanford, North Carolina.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1914 November.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 3887.
Phrase 'real chance' is underlined on the caption card.
Subjects:
Boys.
Textile mill workers.
Cotton industry.
Accidents.
Wounds & injuries.
United States--North Carolina--Sanford.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004004167/PP/
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