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Some of the young boys who are rollers and bunch-breakers in Danville Cigarette Factory. The very smallest ones avoided the camera. One of them asked me if the camera told their ages. Location: Danville, Virginia.

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01/01/1911
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Danville, 36.58597, -79.39502
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