Employees' poster, Pocasset Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine. – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Employees' poster, Pocasset Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Employees' poster, Pocasset Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.
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A workplace notice, rather than a worker or machine, is the focus of this 1916 view of the Pocasset Mill in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine made the picture for the National Child Labor Committee, which sent him to document conditions in American factories and mills. Fall River was then one of the country's major cotton-textile centers, and the posted notice offers a quiet glimpse of the rules and communications that shaped daily life for mill employees.
| Created / published | 1916 June 18. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4175. |
| Subjects | Textile industry. Signs (Notices) Employee-employer relations.United States--Massachusetts--Fall River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,269 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158594 |
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