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Willie Roberts 11 year old delivery boy in Reiss Department Store. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

There are a number of these young newsboys in the Alabama cities. See Alabama report. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Young office boy 11 years old. Works in law office. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Family all in mill. Small boy been at it 4 years. Mother said "she used to make her $1.00 a day spoolin' but she never can now at spinnin'. Some are better at one thing and some at another." Nov. 1908. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Ivey Mill Company, Hickory, N.C. Some doffers and sweepers. Plenty of them. Location: Hickory, North Carolina.

Noon hour, Ivey mill, hickory, N.C. Location: Hickory, North Carolina. / Photo by ...

Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. National Child Labor Committee. No. 282. Girl on left said she was 10 years old and been in mill a long time more than a year. Spinner girl on right said she was 12 years. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Doffer in a Lincolnton, (N.C.) mill. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Ozark Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours at a stretch. No special time off to eat. "Eat a-workin'." 9:00 P.M. Friday, Nov. 6, 1908. Mill was running. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Holland Mfg. Co., Gastonia, N.C. 8:00 P.M. Mill running nights. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Doffers in Trenton Mills, Gastonia, N.C. Others as small and some smaller. Little girls too. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

On streets near Daniel Mill. Lincolnton, N.C. Right hand boy--Dan Biggerstaff. 10 years old. Has worked 3 years. Goes to school now (he says). Left hand, John Erwin. Said 11 years old. Has worked nights. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Daniel Mill, Lincolnton, N.C. Group of women and two girls. Shows type of adolescent. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Girls in Daniel Mill, Lincolnton, N.C. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Plenty of young boys and girls. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. A few of the workers. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. One of the smallest boys. Doffer. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

A home in Cherryville. Soon to go to work. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Smallest chap said he had been in mill for 2 years. Many youngster here. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been working for two years. Many of them below age. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Daniel Mfg. Company, Lincolnton, N.C. Boy 6 years old, stays around in the mill all day. Mother and sister both work there. Helps a little. How soon will he be drafted into regular service?. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Ivey Mill, Hickory, N.C. Little one, 3 years old, who visits and plays in the mill. Daughter of the overseer. Location: Hickory, North Carolina.

Daniel Mfg. Co., Lincolnton N.C. Girl beginning to spin. Many of these there. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Spinning room. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.