Mamie La Barge at her Machine. Under legal age. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts. – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mamie La Barge at her Machine. Under legal age. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mamie La Barge at her Machine. Under legal age. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.
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Mamie La Barge is shown at her machine in a Winchendon, Massachusetts, mill in this September 1911 photograph, and the caption card identifies her as under the legal working age. Lewis Hine made many pictures like this for the National Child Labor Committee, which used them to push for laws keeping children out of factories. The attribution to Hine rests on the print's provenance rather than a signature, but the image fits his documentary focus on young workers and the machinery around them. It is a useful record of how children were employed in New England textile mills in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | 1911 September. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2365. |
| Subjects | Girls. Textile mill workers. Textile machinery. Mills.United States--Massachusetts--Winchendon. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,094 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113330 |
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