Selina Wall,Valley Cotton Mill,West,Texas,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,1913

Title: Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Valley Cotton Mill, West Texas. Their family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: 'She's just taking the place of her sister fifteen years old. Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin.' The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family. Location: West, Texas.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1913 November.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 3639.
Subjects:
Girls.
Textile mill workers.
Textile machinery.
Cotton industry.
United States--Texas--West.
Glass negatives.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004004034/PP/
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