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Little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Overseer said she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia. – Antique Print

Little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Overseer said she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia., 1909 January. — historic photograph
Little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Overseer said she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia., 1909 January.. Historic photograph from the Work & Industry collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A young spinner stands among the machinery at the Globe Cotton Mill in Augusta, Georgia, in this January 1909 view. Its caption card notes that the mill's overseer described her as regularly employed, a detail that reflects how such photographs were documented. Lewis Hine made the picture while working for the National Child Labor Committee, which sent him to Southern textile mills to record the presence of children in the workforce. Overseers and managers often denied that children worked there, so the statements attached to these images were part of the evidence the committee used to argue for child labor laws.

Created / published1909 January.
Medium1 photographic print.1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenrePhotographic prints.Glass negatives.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 0548. Reproduction no.
SubjectsGirls. Textile mill workers. Cotton industry. Spinning machinery.United States--Georgia--Augusta.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,458 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218557

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