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Women assembled at Wheeley's Church near Gordonton, North Carolina, to clean up church and grounds on annual cleaning up day

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This group represents most of the workers in the Cape Fear Cotton Mills, except the very smallest. There were 5 or 6 apparently under 13. See North Carolina report. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina

One of the smallest workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Ga. I saw only two I thought under 12. Location: Lafayette, Georgia

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Shaw Cotton Mills. Overseer grouped all the workers, and several of them are surely under 13, and several began work under 13 last year. Location: Weldon, North Carolina

Some of the doffers in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia The smallest one said he was 15 years old but, for that matter, they are all "wise" to the necessity for being at least 14. All work. The group was posed by the overseer. Location: Fries, Virginia.

Group of young workers in Clifton Mill, Elifton [i.e., Clifton], S.C. Some still smaller wouldn't go in the photograph. Location: Clifton, South Carolina.

One of the smallest workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Ga. I saw only two I thought under 12. Location: Lafayette, Georgia.

These were all of the small boys I found working at the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills, the day I was there. One of the smallest boys had been working there for two years. Not many under fourteen. Location: Suffolk, Virginia

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This group represents most of the workers in the Cape Fear Cotton Mills, except the very smallest. There were 5 or 6 apparently under 13. See North Carolina report. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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01/01/1914
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Fayetteville (N.C.) ,  35.05278, -78.87833
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Adrian Lornager, 8 Bowditch St. (Apparently 13.) Has been sweeper in Grinnell Mill Nearly a year. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Every one of these was working in the cotton mill at North Pormal [i.e., Pownal], Vt. and they were running a small force. Rosie Lapiare, 15 years; Jane Sylvester, 15 years; Runie[?] Cird, 12 years; R. Sylvester, 12 years; E. [H.?] Willett, 13 years; Nat. Sylvester, 13 years; John King, 14 years; Z. Lapear, 13 years. Standing on step. Clarence Noel 11 years old, David Noel 14 years old. Location: No[rth] Pownal, Vermont / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Jan. 20, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia.

Lucille Burroughs, daughter of a cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama

Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Old tenant house with mud chimney and cotton up to its door occupied by mulattoes on plantation

Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Family living in the "downstairs" part of a tobacco barn. Father works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV

American River Bridge. Railroad around Cape Horn, 1,400 feet above

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Jamie Sherley, (girl) Wylie Mills, Chester, S.C. Been in mill 6 years. Ambro Sherley--11 years old. Been in mill over 1 year. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

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