Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. One of the smallest boys. Doffer. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina. – Vintage Wall Art
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Step back in time with Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. One of the smallest boys. Doffer. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. One of the smallest boys. Doffer. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.
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Taken at the Cherryville Manufacturing Company in Cherryville, North Carolina, in November 1908, this picture shows one of the smallest boys on the mill floor, working as a doffer, a job that meant pulling full bobbins from the spinning frames and replacing them with empty ones. Child labor was common in Southern textile mills at the time, and the National Child Labor Committee sent photographers into the region to document it. The print is attributed to Lewis Hine, who made many such images, and its caption card ties it to that effort. Look at the machinery around the boy to see how small he is beside it.
| Created / published | 1908 November. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 0295. |
| Subjects | Boys. Girls. Textile mill workers. Mills. Textile machinery.United States--North Carolina--Cherryville. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,080 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118510 |
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