The Padgett family,South Weldon,North Carolina,Shaw Cotton Mills,1914

Title: A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including the mother totally illiterate. No one could read or write. The mother does mill work some. Alice, 17 years has steady job. Makes from $5 to $6 a week. Alfred, 13 years now, worked here when he was 12, and in other mills before that. Makes $4 a week. Recently crippled by getting his hand caught in the cogs of a spinning machine. Richard just reached 11. Been working here 1 year; began when he was 10. Makes $2.40 a week. 'The work runs him down too.' William, 6 years old, nearly blind. Lizzie, 5 years old. Home in utter neglect; filthy and bare. When investigator called the mother had been gone about an hour, leaving a roomer's 3 months old baby in the cradle before an open fire on the hearth, and only two children 5 and 6 years old - one nearly blind, playing around. She came back and fed them a lot of cheap candy. What will Society reap from its neglect of this family? Shaw Cotton Mills. Location: South Weldon, 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. 3851.
Subjects:
Boys.
Girls.
Women.
Families.
Textile mill workers.
Cotton industry.
United States--North Carolina--South Weldon.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004004144/PP/
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