Doffer boy in Globe Mills, Augusta, Ga. – Historic Print
![Doffer boy in Globe Mills, Augusta, Ga., [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fd/fd5458c7b1e0-L.webp)
(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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Doffer boy in Globe Mills, Augusta, Ga.
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A young doffer, a worker who pulled full bobbins from spinning frames and replaced them with empty ones, stands at Globe Mills in Augusta, Georgia. Augusta's textile mills drew on the cotton grown across the surrounding region, and many mills of this era hired children for jobs like doffing because their small size let them reach between machines. The picture comes from the National Photo Company Collection, a body of commercial photographs taken in the early twentieth century. Its record dates it only to a range between 1909 and 1932, but it belongs to the broader documentation of child labor in Southern mills.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1932] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1940. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Children, Misc. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 1772. Formerly in album 436. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113374 |
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