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[Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills.] Location: Adams, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine. – Vintage Wall Art

[Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills.] Location: Adams, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine., 1916 July 10. — historic photograph
[Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills.] Location: Adams, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine., 1916 July 10.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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[Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills.] Location: Adams, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

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A 14-year-old "back boy" stands in the mule room of the Berkshire Cotton Mills in Adams, Massachusetts, in this July 1916 photograph by Lewis W. Hine. Back boys worked behind the spinning mules, where they pieced together broken threads while the carriage moved, a job that kept children close to fast, dangerous machinery for long hours. Hine made pictures like this for the National Child Labor Committee, which used them to build public support for limits on child labor. The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, which restricted interstate commerce in goods made by children, was signed later that same year.

Created / published1916 July 10.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesIn album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4379. Hine no. 4380.
SubjectsBoys. Textile mill workers. Cotton industry. Spinning machinery.United States--Massachusetts--Adams.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,286 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178440

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