Georgia Historic photos, documents, and people

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Peach picker's home near Muscella, Georgia "They don't lay nothing by for food. The biggest what they do when they git a little money is chung it over to automobiles"

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Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Jan. 20, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia.

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Some of the youngsters (not all) that are at work in Bibb Mill No. 2, Macon Ga. Location: Macon, Georgia. / Photo by ...

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Workers in Enterprise Cotton Mill (Augusta, Ga.) Smallest boy (in middle) been in this mill 4 years. Others been there several years. Location: Augusta, Georgia.

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Neil Power, 10 years old, he said, "Turns stockings in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill." A shy, pathetic figure. "Hain't been to school much." Location: Rome, Georgia.

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Soldier on the way to a hospital in Memphis-Louisville, Nashville bus

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Group of workers in Perkins Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Not many very young children here. Dozens of them in the adjoining mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

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Wallace Pollard--In Mill for several years. Smaller one--Otis Pollard--2 years in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Sat. Jan. 16, 1909. Location: Augusta, Georgia.

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Doffers in Willingham Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. The three boys in front row have been in mill work for 4, 5 and 6 years respectively. Location: Macon, Georgia.