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Group of spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee

Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee

Young spinners in Brookside Cotton Mills. A large number of very young boys and girls work here. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Young spinners in Brookside Cotton Mills. A large number of very young boys and girls work here. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Young spinners in Brookside Cotton Mills. A large number of very young boys and girls work here. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

One of the youngest spinners in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia Hettie Roberts. Runs two sides. Been working several weeks. Location: Fries, Virginia

Young spinners and doffers in Richmond Spinning Mills, taken during working hours. Smallest girl said she had been working there for months. The other girl said she didn't know how long. Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Fourteen year old spinner in a? Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. Location: West, Texas

Group of spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

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01/01/1910
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Fayetteville (Tenn.) ,  35.15194, -86.57056
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"Teaching the young Idea How to Sell." Gus Hodges, age 11, instructing his brother Julius, age 5. I found Gus selling as late as 9:00 P.M., and he said that he had made over one dollar a day. Julius and another brother, 9 years old, has made 25 cents that day. Norfolk, Virginia.

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Ernest E. Hart House, 4828 West Fayetteville Road, College Park, Fulton County, GA

Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children on the ground work in the mill. Oldest makes 90 cents a day, - the next, 70 cents, - the boy 30 cents, ("He's slow," they said.) and Eva makes 28 cents a day. Eva is learning to spin. Can run two sides soon. She is 12 now (which is doubtful) but said that she learned to spin before she was 12. Location: West Point, Mississippi

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Sherburne County Courthouse, 320 Lowell Avenue, Elk River, Sherburne County, MN

The houses of Bisbee, Arizona, are built along the sides of the mountains and long stairways are necessary to reach them. This is a copper mining center

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Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Get 1 cents a pound for snipping beans[?] at the sheds at Hamburg Canning Factory. Geno was 8 years old, last summer. These two and mother and made 70 to 80 cents a day. Much of this money goes to pay rent for [...] in Buffalo, that is reserved through the summer. All three worked in sheds. They went to the country the last of May returned to Buffalo middle of October, losing about 9 weeks of school. Attend School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

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