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The two smallest boys in the group are Patrick Roddy, 968 Central Street, who doffs in No. 1 spinning room, and has been working there three months. Walter McNally, 7 North Street, works in No. 2, spinning room and appears 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.
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The two smallest boys in the group are Patrick Roddy, 968 Central Street, who doffs in No. 1 spinning room, and has been working there three months. Walter McNally, 7 North Street, works in No. 2, spinning room and appears 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
The two smallest boys in the group are Patrick Roddy, 968 Central Street, who doffs in No. 1 spinning room, and has been working there three months. Walter McNally, 7 North Street, works in No. 2, spinning room and appears 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.
The two smallest boys in the group are Patrick Roddy, 968 Central Street, who doffs in No. 1 spinning room, and has been working there three months. Walter McNally, 7 North Street, works in No. 2, spinning room and appears 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.
Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.
Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.
Dennis Cavanaugh, 24 Bassett St., works in spinning room No. 6. Door boy is Alexander Stankiewicz, 3 Fayette Street, Millens' yard. Works in lower spinning room No. 2. Been there 1 12 years. Appears 12 or 13 years old. Massachusetts. mill gate near Bridge Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. Location: Lowell, Massachusettsachusetts
Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
Alexander Durand, 35 Tucker Street, next boy in middle of picture appears 12 years old. Is in mill room No. 2. Joseph Courtois, 33 Tucker St., at the right Alex. appears about 13 years old. Works in the spinning room. Majorie Bonclair, at left of Alex. see 2592. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.
The two smallest boys in the group are Patrick Roddy, 968 Central Street, who doffs in No. 1 spinning room, and has been working there three months. Walter McNally, 7 North Street, works in No. 2, spinning room and appears 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
Summary
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 2587.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: loc.gov
Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
Hine grew up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As a young man he had to care for himself, and working at a furniture factory gave him first-hand knowledge of industrial workers' harsh reality. Eight years later he matriculated at the University of Chicago and met Professor Frank A. Manny, whom he followed to New York to teach at the Ethical Culture School and continue his studies at New York University. As a faculty member at the Ethical Culture School Hine was introduced to photography. From 1904 until his death he documented a series of sites and conditions in the USA and Europe. In 1906 he became a photographer and field worker for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Undercover, disguised among other things as a Bible salesman or photographer for post-cards or industry, Hine went into American factories. His research methodology was based on photographic documentation and interviews. Together with the NCLC he worked to place the working conditions of two million American children onto the political agenda. The NCLC later said that Hine's photographs were decisive in the 1938 passage of federal law governing child labor in the United States. In 1918 Hine left the NCLC for the Red Cross and their work in Europe. After a short period as an employee, he returned to the United States and began as an independent photographer. One of Hine's last major projects was the series Men at Work, published as a book in 1932. It is a homage to the worker that built the country, and it documents such things as the construction of the Empire State Building. In 1940 Hine died abruptly after several years of poor income and few commissions. Even though interest in his work was increasing, it was not until after his death that Hine was raised to the stature of one of the great photographers in the history of the medium.