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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old – Antique Photo Print

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old , 1890 — antique lithograph
Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old , 1890. Antique lithograph from the New York City collection.

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Step back in time with Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old , an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old

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The title names a specific worker, Giles Edmund Newsom, who was hurt on August 21, 1912, at the Sanders Spinning Mill in Bessemer City, North Carolina, when a machine part fell on his foot and his hand was caught in unguarded gearing. The record lists the print as a color lithograph from 1890, published in the February 22, 1890, issue of *Judge*, a New York humor weekly. The dates do not match, so the entry is best read with caution. Child labor in Southern textile mills drew reform attention in the early twentieth century, and Newsom's own statement that he was 11 years old shows how common underage work was there.

Created / published1890
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
Notes1890
SubjectsIllus. in: Judge, 1890 Feb. 22, vol. 17, no. 436, pp. 322-323.
Original scan4,096 × 3,239 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184776

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