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Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. All work. Location: McC...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McCom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2084. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Smallest boy, a band-boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littelson, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Smallest boy, a band-boy...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2090. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me that he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven but his mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band bo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2086. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some of the adolescents working in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Some of the adolescents working in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. All work. Location: McC...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band bo...

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Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McCom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2085. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2083. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Smallest boy, a band-boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littelson, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Smallest boy, a band-boy...

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All work in Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2088. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Three of the young workers. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Three of the young workers....

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2089. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me that he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven but his mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band bo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Location: McComb, Missi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Some of the adolescents working in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Some of the adolescents working in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. L...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2087. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon at Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Three of the young workers. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon at Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Three of the young workers. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2081. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2089. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More