All Photos

Group of workers in Indian Head Mills. Youngest ones would not be photo'd. (See label 1839.) Location: Cordova, Alabama.

Group of workers coming out of Hamilton Brown Shoe Company. Location: Columbia, Missouri.

Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., saw six boys and two girls probably under 14. Large sign up, "Boys wanted." Location: Louisiana, Missouri.

Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., saw six boys and two girls probably under 14. Large sign up, "Boys Wanted." Location: Louisiana, Missouri.

Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., Saw six boys and two girls probably under 14. Note face of very young girl in window. Large sign up, "Boys Wanted." Location: Louisiana, Missouri.

Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, surely under 14, has been working there one year. Harry True, probably under 14, been working there one year. Harold Hopson appears to be under 14. Noon hour. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Noon hour Brown Shoe Factory. Note young girl in photo - not the youngest employed there. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

One of the youngest girls working in Brown Shoe Factory, (Eva Robinson, apparently 11 or 12). Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Youngest boy is Willie McIntyre, probably under 14. Was unwilling to be photo'd and had to be taken by snapshot. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Young girl working in Friedman Shelby Shoe Factory,. Location: Kirksville, Missouri.

A. W.U. Messenger. Richard Tuck, #63, 13 years old. Sometimes works nights. Location: Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville, United States

Leo, 48 inches high, 8 years old. Picks up bobbins at 15 cents a day in Elk Cotton Mills. He said, "No, I don't help me sister or mother, just myself." Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young boy on warping machine Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young doffers in Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Superintendent and Overseers in Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Group of spinners in Cotton Factory. Location: Talladega, Alabama.

Group of doffers working in Cotton Factory posed by the Superintendent of the factory. The smallest boy told me he had worked there three years. Location: Talladega, Alabama.

Boy working in Talladega Hosiery Mills. Location: Talladega, Alabama.

Group of workers in Avondale Mills. Smallest boy is John Tidwell, been doffing 3 months. Boy next to him is Ragin Bryant been doffing here for five years. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

John Tidwell, a Cotton Mill Product. Doffer in Avondale Mills. Many of these youngsters smoke. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Noon hour at Avondale Mills. I saw this young girl working at her machine in the mill. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Waiting to be Smuggled. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.