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Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virginia Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done during the slack times, most of them going way into the city to the trunk and cigarette factories. Location: Matoaca, Virginia.

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virgi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virginia Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done during the slack times, most of them going way into the city to the trunk and cigarette factories. Location: Matoaca, Virginia.

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virgi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virginia Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done during the slack times, most of them going way into the city to the trunk and cigarette factories. Location: Matoaca, Virginia

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virgi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2212. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virginia Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done during the slack times, most of them going way into the city to the trunk and cigarette factories. Location: Matoaca, Virginia

Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Virgi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2212. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More