The Yelverton Family,Laurel Cotton Mills,Laurel,Mississippi,Child Labor,1911

Title: The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, 'The only one on the street,' they told me repeatedly. Two years ago the came here from the farm fifty miles away and a mile from the R.R. where they owned 135 acres. Father and four oldest boys have been working in the Laurel Cotton Mills for two years. Father said, 'the little girls don't work, an' we're not goin' to let 'em if we can help it. We'll send 'em to school an' make ladies out of em. I don't reckon we'll ever go back to the farm. They all like the mill work. It's light work, but not very healthy though.' The boys said, 'We'd ruther work in the mill, It's easier. No hot sun an' no cold in winter 'cause they heat the mill then.' The two youngest boys, eleven and thirteen years old, the father said, have been in the mill two years, and have had almost no schooling, and no likelihood of getting any more. The mother said, 'I don't like to live in the city near so well. We're more shut in, an' we can't give the boys the schoolin' they ought to have 'cause they've got to work in the mill (wages is so low). We haven't been so well as on the farm.' Location: Laurel, Mississippi.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1911 April.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 2079.
Subjects:
Children & adults.
Families.
Textile mill workers.
United States--Mississippi--Laurel.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004002759/PP/
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