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DeLamar Mercur Mines Company, Golden Gate Mill, Ophir, Tooele County, UT

DeLamar Mercur Mines Company, Golden Gate Mill, Ophir, Tooele County, ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forbes Mill Addition, Church & East Main Streets, Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, CA

Forbes Mill Addition, Church & East Main Streets, Los Gatos, Santa Cla...

Significance: The Forbes flour mill is important as the birthplace of Los Gatos in 1854, when James Forbes built his flour mill here. The addition was built in 1880, adjoining the south wall of the original mi... More

Marshall Milling Company, Grist Mill, South side French Broad River, Marshall, Madison County, NC

Marshall Milling Company, Grist Mill, South side French Broad River, M...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. She was 51 inches high. Had been in mill 1 year. Some at night. Runs 4 sides, 48 cents a day. When asked how old, she hesitated, then said "I don't remember." Then confidentially, "I'm not old enough to work, but I do just the same." Out of 50 employees, ten children about her size. See 463.  Location: Whitnel, North Carolina.

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. She was 51 inches ...

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

The only photo of the mill children I could get. The superintendent was too suspicious. Many young girls and boys in there on day shift. Some below 12 years old went in on night shift.  Location: High Shoals Mills, North Carolina.

The only photo of the mill children I could get. The superintendent wa...

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

Peters Mill, U.S. Route 209 & T301, Bushkill, Pike County, PA

Peters Mill, U.S. Route 209 & T301, Bushkill, Pike County, PA

Significance: Bushkill Grist Mill, located in the Delaware Water Gap region, is a good example of early grist mill technology as much of its original machinery is still intact. It is also notable for its long e... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Bachelor Airmen Quarters, East Ridgecrest Boulevard, Mount Tamalpais, Mill Valley, Marin County, CA

Mill Valley Air Force Station, Bachelor Airmen Quarters, East Ridgecre...

Survey number: HABS CA-2615-L Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction

William Hixon House, Burnt Mill Road, Route 8, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN

William Hixon House, Burnt Mill Road, Route 8, Chattanooga, Hamilton C...

Significance: Historically, the William Hixon House is significant in that it was the residence of one of the earliest settlers of Walker County. Architecturally, the house is significant as a good example of ... More

Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Significance: Blue Spring Cotton Mill was constructed in 1885 and produced 4 x 4 cotton sheeting, along with other products. Survey number: HAER AL-189 Building/structure dates: 1999 Demolished Building/stru... More

Samantha Mill House, 493 East Main Street, Nanticoke, Luzerne County, PA

Samantha Mill House, 493 East Main Street, Nanticoke, Luzerne County, ...

Survey number: HABS PA-24 Building/structure dates: ca. 1810 Initial Construction

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Westend Quarter, Centerline Road, Frederiksted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Westend Quarter,...

Significance: The overhead crank steam engine and associated cane crusher now displayed at the Estate Whim Museum were manufactured by P. & W. McOnie, Glasgow, Scotland in 1847. Originally installed at Estate M... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

The  Old mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

The Old mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Essex Mill, Mill & Van Houten Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Essex Mill, Mill & Van Houten Streets, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ

Significance: Occupying the site that was first to be leased from the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures, the Essex Mill buildings contain elements that can be traced back to 1804. The first ... More

Shenandoah Pulp Mill, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Shenandoah Pulp Mill, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mill in the valley - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

Mill in the valley - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mill in the valley - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

Mill in the valley - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, Lead, Lawrence County, SD

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, Lead, Lawrence County, SD

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Riverdale Cotton Mill, Corner of Middle & Lower Streets, Valley, Chambers County, AL

Riverdale Cotton Mill, Corner of Middle & Lower Streets, Valley, Chamb...

Survey number: HAER AL-166 Building/structure dates: 1866 Initial Construction

Curtis Wharf, Feed Mill, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County, WA

Curtis Wharf, Feed Mill, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County,...

Survey number: HABS WA-198-H Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drop wire boy, Granite Mill.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Drop wire boy, Granite Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Le...

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

Ackerson & Demarest Trading Post, Main Street & Mill Road, Park Ridge, Bergen County, NJ

Ackerson & Demarest Trading Post, Main Street & Mill Road, Park Ridge,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-241 Survey number: HABS NJ-176 Building/structure dates: ca. 1765 Initial Construction

Ackerson & Demarest Trading Post, Main Street & Mill Road, Park Ridge, Bergen County, NJ

Ackerson & Demarest Trading Post, Main Street & Mill Road, Park Ridge,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-241 Survey number: HABS NJ-176 Building/structure dates: ca. 1765 Initial Construction

Nichols Saw Mill, Bow Mills, Merrimack County, NH

Nichols Saw Mill, Bow Mills, Merrimack County, NH

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nichols Saw Mill, Bow Mills, Merrimack County, NH

Nichols Saw Mill, Bow Mills, Merrimack County, NH

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

San Jose Grist Mill, Southwest of San Jose Drive, east of Espada Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

San Jose Grist Mill, Southwest of San Jose Drive, east of Espada Road,...

Survey number: HAER TX-2 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adams Methodist Episcopal Church, Road to Hendrickson's Mill, Swedesboro, Gloucester County, NJ

Adams Methodist Episcopal Church, Road to Hendrickson's Mill, Swedesbo...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-30 Survey number: HABS NJ-83 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

Whiting-Plover Paper Mill, Building No. 2, 3243 Whiting Road, Whiting, Portage County, WI

Whiting-Plover Paper Mill, Building No. 2, 3243 Whiting Road, Whiting,...

Significance: The Whiting-Plover mill is one of the oldest mills on the Wisconsin River. Survey number: HAER WI-56-B

Chenango Sugar Mill, Chenango Vicinity, Angleton, Brazoria County, TX

Chenango Sugar Mill, Chenango Vicinity, Angleton, Brazoria County, TX

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Composite photograph of child laborers made from cotton mill children

Composite photograph of child laborers made from cotton mill children

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Job Macy House, 11 Mill Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Job Macy House, 11 Mill Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: An early example of the typical Nantucket dwelling-house with two stories front and rear rather than a lean-to to rear and characterized by a lack of symmetry, four bays, off-center doorway and ch... More

Winnicut Grist Mill, Winnicut River, Stratham, Rockingham County, NH

Winnicut Grist Mill, Winnicut River, Stratham, Rockingham County, NH

Survey number: HABS NH-24 Building/structure dates: ca. 1747 Initial Construction

Guyn's Mill, Grist Mill, Mundy's Landing & Pauls Mill Roads, Troy, Woodford County, KY

Guyn's Mill, Grist Mill, Mundy's Landing & Pauls Mill Roads, Troy, Woo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Graniteville Mill, Marshall Street, Graniteville, Aiken County, SC

Significance: Graniteville Mill was one of the largest mills in the South during the antebellum period. The original mill, canal, school house, and a number of original Gothic Revival houses are still extant a... More

Mount Healthy Mill, Covered Bridge Road, Mount Healthy, Hamilton County, OH

Mount Healthy Mill, Covered Bridge Road, Mount Healthy, Hamilton Count...

Significance: Mount Healthy Mill is an early nineteenth century saw mill, later converted to a grist mill. The predominant remaining element is a five-story wooden structure in which the original grain bins an... More

Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert County, GA

Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert Cou...

Significance: The Pearle Cotton Mill is an industrial archeological site that once served as the focus of a mill village known as Beverly, Georgia. The factory was built in 1895 by Thomas M. Swift of Elberton,... More

Alexander's Grist Mill, Lock 37 on Ohio & Erie Canal, South of Cleveland, Valley View, Cuyahoga County, OH

Alexander's Grist Mill, Lock 37 on Ohio & Erie Canal, South of Clevela...

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Scovill Brass Works was established in Waterbury as Abel Porter & Company in 1802. Early in its 175 year history it produced buttons, coins, whale oil lamps, carriage trim, and daguerreotype ... More

Watkins Mill, County Highway MM, Lawson, Ray County, MO

Watkins Mill, County Highway MM, Lawson, Ray County, MO

Significance: The Watkins (Woolen) Mill contains the finest collection of mid-19th century textile machinery in situ in North America and includes some of the most significant textile artifacts known to survive... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County, IN

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Wall Street Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Wall Street Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wall Street Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Wall Street Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, CO

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, CO

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, CO

Shenandoah-Dives Mill, 135 County Road 2, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

The original caption for photograph #30 incorrectly identified the lake as Silver Lake. It has been corrected to Little Giant Basin. Significance: The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an exceptional example of early t... More

Triadelphia Mill Group, Tradelphia Lake Road, Unity, Montgomery County, MD

Triadelphia Mill Group, Tradelphia Lake Road, Unity, Montgomery County...

Survey number: HABS MD-114 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Schwamb Mill, 17 Mill Lane, Arlington, Middlesex County, MA

Schwamb Mill, 17 Mill Lane, Arlington, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: This example of a 19th-century woodworking mill includes operational equipment and evidence for four power systems. Circular and elliptical picture frames are manufactured here as they have been ... More

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Mill (Ruins), 2.65 miles North of PR Route 2 Bridge Over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Mill (Ruins), 2.65 miles North of PR ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER PR-1-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1861 Initial Construction

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit County, OH

Jaite Paper Mill, 1200 West Highland Road, Sagamore Hills, Summit Coun...

Significance: The Jaite Paper Mill is the focal point of the Jaite Mill Historic District, one of the few remaining company towns in northeast Ohio. Originally built by Charles Jaite in 1905, the mill was cons... More

Ben Thresher's Mill, State Aid No. 1, Barnet, Caledonia County, VT

Ben Thresher's Mill, State Aid No. 1, Barnet, Caledonia County, VT

Significance: Alexander Jack built the mill as a Dye & Print Works in 1872. J. Loren Judkins established a Wagon Shop in 1893 and added the Blacksmith Shop c. 1895. The timber frame and plank dam is intact. ... More

Wyndclyffe, Mill Road, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY

Wyndclyffe, Mill Road, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, 260 Twelfth Street, Salem, Marion, OR

Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, 260 Twelfth Street, Salem, Marion, OR

Significance: The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill Company was founded in 1889 by Thomas Kay, Squire Farrar, and C.P. Bishop, incorporators. The existing mill was constructed in 1896. At one time, it was the largest wo... More

Womack's Mill, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC

Womack's Mill, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC

Significance: Womack's Mill, constructed in 1909, is the only flour mill still standing in Caswell County. The mill dam was constructed in 1826 and is intact. The mill was designed for one run of stones and f... More

Womack's Mill, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC

Womack's Mill, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC

Significance: Womack's Mill, constructed in 1909, is the only flour mill still standing in Caswell County. The mill dam was constructed in 1826 and is intact. The mill was designed for one run of stones and f... More

Womack's Mill, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC

Womack's Mill, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC

Significance: Womack's Mill, constructed in 1909, is the only flour mill still standing in Caswell County. The mill dam was constructed in 1826 and is intact. The mill was designed for one run of stones and f... More

[Description of a Mill Village]
Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR...

Significance: The La Esperanza's decorated steam engine is the only West Point Foundry beam engine known to survive. It is also the only known 6-column beam engine by any American manufacturer. Additionally, i... More

Down by the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

Down by the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Luckenbach Flour Mill, 250 feet east of Monocacy Creek, 250 feet west of Main Street, 700 feet south of Broad Street, north side of Ohio Road, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Luckenbach Flour Mill, 250 feet east of Monocacy Creek, 250 feet west ...

Significance: Located on the foundation of a 1751 Moravian grist mill, the Luckenbach Flour Mill represents the evolution of milling technology in the last half of the 19th century. Roller milling machinery wa... More

Chapel Street Swing Bridge, Spanning Mill River on Chapel Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

Chapel Street Swing Bridge, Spanning Mill River on Chapel Street, New ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

In the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

In the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

In the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Little Miss Chicago, or, The novelty mill a musical perversion

Little Miss Chicago, or, The novelty mill a musical perversion

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

' Neath the maple by the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 1874

' Neath the maple by the mill - Public domain American sheet music, 18...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Plan of the battle of Mill Spring or Logan's Cross Roads : fought January 19th, 1862.

Plan of the battle of Mill Spring or Logan's Cross Roads : fought Janu...

NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page. This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information. Available also... More

Sketch of the battlefield of Logan's Cross Roads and of the enemys fortified position at and opposite Mill Spring, Ky. to which he retreated after his defeat, Major General George H. Thomas comdg. the U.S. forces, General G. B. Crittenden comdg. the Confed. Forces, Jan. 19th 1862.

Sketch of the battlefield of Logan's Cross Roads and of the enemys for...

Relief shown by hachures. Map of Logan's Cross Roads indicates four positions of Union and Confederate soldiers, troop camps, location of graves, roads, drainage, vegetation, houses, and fences. Map of Mill Spr... More

[The students of the rolling mill]

[The students of the rolling mill]

Apprentices at the Naval Sheet Metal Mills. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 17. In album: Ships, naval schools and the Naval Fire Brigade, Istanbul and environs... More

[Green Lake, Wis., old mill at railway station]

[Green Lake, Wis., old mill at railway station]

Public domain photograph of village home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Map of the battle field of Gaines's Mill, showing approximately the positions of infantry and artillery engaged /

[Map of the battle field of Gaines's Mill, showing approximately the p...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Logging among the big trees of California--mules hauling logs to the mill on skids, Converse Basin

Logging among the big trees of California--mules hauling logs to the m...

H15473 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boy on right Charlie Burton-9, Ozark Mill. This anaemic sic, hollow chested, stoop shouldered under-sized and weight, said--"Been in mill 6 or 7 years. 12 years old. Haint grown none for 5 years. Doff at night and get 60 cents. Couldn't stand the sweepin' at the other mill, so mother moved us over here so I could get a job at doffin'." "Night work is 12 hours at a stretch." His sister (14 years old) has been spinning for 6 years. Makes 50 cents a day. (See small photo,--Maggie Burton). No. 315. Other boy--Frank Goodson--Been in mill 6 years. This mill was running nights at the time the photograph was taken. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Boy on right Charlie Burton-9, Ozark Mill. This anaemic sic, hollow ch...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 277. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Girl at end of porch Daisy Estis (Couldn't spell her name) Worked 2 years. other two not in the mill. No school within reach. All chewed tobacco. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Girl at end of porch Daisy Estis (Couldn't s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 318. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Tommy Ashville, (smaller boy) 2 years in mill. "Specks I'm about 11." Arthur Shelly, 8 years in mill. 14 years old. Other boys agreed he had been in mill 8 years.  Location: Chester, South Carolina.

Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Tommy Ashville, (smaller boy) 2 years in mil...

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

Lea Rabb, 84 Main St., Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. 5 years in the mill.  Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Lea Rabb, 84 Main St., Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. 5 yea...

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

Willie Crocker, (barefoot) Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. 13 years old-- "worked since I was 6 years old." Lost part of finger in gear of machinery. Fred Crocker--11 years old. 1 year in mill. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Willie Crocker, (barefoot) Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. 13 years old-- "w...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 324. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Dillon Mills, Dillon, S.C. Lizzie Davis, (smallest). Been in mill 2 years. Next--Nettie Arnet - Been in mill 8 years. Next--Monnie McCraney, been in mill 3 years. Next--Vater Arnet, been in mill 8 years. Next--Mattie Connor, spinners and Winders. Saturday, Dec. 5, 08. Location: Dillon, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Dillon Mills, Dillon, S.C. Lizzie Davis, (smallest). Been in mill 2 ye...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 397. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Etta Squires,--12 years old. Been in mill 3 years. Runs 5 sides. Mother was very proud of this. She own two houses and doesn't work in the mill herself. Location: Dillon, South Carolina

Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Etta Squires,--12 years old. Been in mill 3 y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 387. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Girls working in Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Zetella Gallman (by window) (looked 15 years old). Has worked 2 years. Both girls in middle said they had been in mill 8 years. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Girls working in Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Zetella Gallman (by ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 326. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Eunice Hadwin spinner in King Mill, Augusta, Ga., earns 75 cents to $1.00 a day. Been in mill work 5 years. Location: Augusta, Georgia

Eunice Hadwin spinner in King Mill, Augusta, Ga., earns 75 cents to $1...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 553. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Sweepers and doffers in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy on right hand end, Frank Jetro has been in mill 3 years. Next Jos. Jetro, nearly 3 years. Next Manuel Ray; 2 years. Next Jo. Jolian; 1 year.  Location: River Point, Rhode Island.

Sweepers and doffers in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy on right han...

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

Flashlight photo 6 P.M. going home from King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Two of the smallest boys been in mill 2 years. One of the larger for 4 years.  Location: Augusta, Georgia.

Flashlight photo 6 P.M. going home from King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Tw...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A few of the youngsters in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Taken at noon, Jan. 14, 1909. A party of us under the guidance of the Vice President had been shown through the mill but no evidences of these children were to be seen. See also photos #501, 502.  Location: Augusta, Georgia.

A few of the youngsters in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Taken at noon, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A bad New Years start for the children. A group of doffer boys who were cleaning up in the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C., during the noon hour. The superintendent had forbidden my taking any photos on the company's premises, so I slipped in at noon when authorities were away, gathered the boys together and took this. See photos 472 to 479.  Location: Charlotte, North Carolina / by Lewis W. Hine. Jan 1, 1909.

A bad New Years start for the children. A group of doffer boys who wer...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Group of doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill arranged by the Overseer. Superintendent of mill is also Mayor of Pell City. Location: Pell City, Alabama

Group of doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill arranged by the Over...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1785. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All these are workers in the Pell City Cotton Mill. Mr. E.A. Thompson, Superintendent of the Mill is also Mayor of Pell City. Location: Pell City, Alabama

All these are workers in the Pell City Cotton Mill. Mr. E.A. Thompson,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1783. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

[Groups of workers in Hand Silk Mill.]  Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

[Groups of workers in Hand Silk Mill.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware...

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Filling, weighing and sewing sacks of raw sugar at Plantation mill, Hawaiian Islands

Filling, weighing and sewing sacks of raw sugar at Plantation mill, Ha...

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Noon hour at Avondale Mills. I saw this young girl working at her machine in the mill. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Noon hour at Avondale Mills. I saw this young girl working at her mach...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1802. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. See also other Magnolia photos and labels. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi

Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the littl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1495. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Anaemic adolescent who refused to give his name: Works in Kilburn Mill, New Bedford. (Is probably 13 or 14 years old.)  Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Anaemic adolescent who refused to give his name: Works in Kilburn Mill...

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[These subjects went to work at 6:45 A.M. and many of them came out at 6 P.M. for they "work" in this mill. New Bedford, Massachusetts. August 24, 1911. 6:30 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness,].  Location: New Bedford, Massachusettsachusetts.

[These subjects went to work at 6:45 A.M. and many of them came out at...

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Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, " She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay," but she helps regularly, and says she can run two sides. Worked steadily all the time I was in the mill. There are nine in the family; five in the mill, including the father. "We like the mill work much better than farming," they said. Recently moved in from a small farm 50 miles a way.  Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, ...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

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Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S. C. His step brother, Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989.)  Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenb...

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Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions. Location: Greensboro, North Carolina

Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the bea...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3093. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Extremes of age in the Belton Mfg. Co., S.C. The boy is Fred Willingham. Been working six months in the Bolton Mfg. Mill. Gets 50 cents. Sweeps. His next older brother has been doffing a year or two. Fred and his older sister had some confusion about the age, first making him out "goin on 12" and then they raised it. Sister said record was not in the bible. Father and two boys in the mill. Location: Belton, South Carolina

Extremes of age in the Belton Mfg. Co., S.C. The boy is Fred Willingha...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3019. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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