Spare hands in Granite Mill #1. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine. – Historic Reproduction
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Spare hands in Granite Mill #1. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Spare hands in Granite Mill #1. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.
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Titled "Spare hands" on the National Child Labor Committee caption card, this June 1916 view shows boys at work inside Granite Mill No. 1 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis Hine made it while documenting child labor for the committee, a campaign that used photographs like this one to push for limits on the work children did in factories. Fall River was one of the largest cotton-textile centers in the country at the time, and the title suggests the boys were kept on hand to fill in wherever a machine or shift needed them.
| Created / published | 1916 June 13. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4236. |
| Subjects | Boys. Textile mill workers.United States--Massachusetts--Fall River. |
| 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-158606 |
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