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

Drop wire boy, Granite Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine., 1916 June 13. — historic photograph
Drop wire boy, Granite Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine., 1916 June 13.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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A boy working the drop wires at Granite Mill in Fall River, Massachusetts, is the subject of this June 1916 photograph. Drop wires are thin metal strips hung on a loom that fall when a warp thread breaks, stopping the machine so it can be repaired, so the job required close watch over moving equipment. Lewis W. Hine made the picture for the National Child Labor Committee, which used his images to press for laws limiting child labor in factories and mills. Fall River's cotton mills were among the largest in the country at the time, and the city was a focus of his investigations.

Created / published1916 June 13.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4201.
SubjectsBoys. Textile mill workers.United States--Massachusetts--Fall River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,086 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158601

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