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One of the youngsters working in Lancaster Cotton Mills. S.C. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Grating through which particles of manganese concentrate fall and are broken up into smaller particles

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn out steel parts for a large Eastern shipyard building units of Uncle Sam's "Liberty Fleet." Here they operate a giant shear. This plant was originally used to produce freight cars, and the shears are part of the plant's original equipment. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

15 year old sweeper - Spinning and Spooling room - Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making bits for a pneumatic drilling machine is to heat a rod of the proper size; this rod is placed into machine which punches and forms the bit; this process is called drop forging. Bit plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

The serial numbers of each track for Army halftrac vehicles crated for shipment from a Midwest tire plant are given a final check. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

King Philip Card Room. Rosawna - 14 years, 959 Globe St., Doffer on Jack Speeders. Pushing a truck of empty bobbins. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Workers at rolling machine in Washington Tinplate Company. Washington, Pennsylvania

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Henry Fourner i.e., Fournier?, 261 Jefferson St., Castle Hill; has been sweeper and cleaner in #2 Spinning Room two months. Location: Salem, Massachusetts

Joseph Richard (head only), 26 Wheatland St., Castle Hill, works in Spinning Room #1 fourth floor; been doffing three years; gets $7.80 a week now. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Joseph Bernard, 38 Perkins St., works in Spinning room #2. Location: Salem, Massachusetts

Smallest boy is Philip Beaulieu, 36 1/2 Perkins St. Works in #2 Spinning Room; been working two months. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Manuel Soarels, 175 Coggshall St., works in Bennel [i.e., Bennett?] Mill, Sweeps in #4 Spinning room, has been there one year. Frank Sylvia Soares, 14 Addidson St., works in Bennett Mill. Sweeps in Spinning room #4. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Alfred Corriveau, 14 Perkins St., works in Spinning Room #2, fifth floor. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Joseph Bernard, 38 Perkins St., works in Spinning room #2. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Joseph Richard (head only), 26 Wheatland St., Castle Hill, works in Spinning Room #1 fourth floor; been doffing three years; gets $7.80 a week now. Location: Salem, Massachusetts

Peter Pluta (right hand boy), 2 Bertha Ave. Works in spinning room. Two years there Henry Fritz (left hand), 56 Cheever St. Has worked in spinning room two or three months. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Henry Fourner [i.e., Fournier?], 261 Jefferson St., Castle Hill; has been sweeper and cleaner in #2 Spinning Room two months. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

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01/01/1911
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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