North Carolina Historic photos, documents, and people

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Girl in Cherryville Mill. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

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The tobacco barn, a distinctive American architectural form. Note tobacco growing in field behind barn. Person County, North Carolina

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Small girl, Bright Horton, works in Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. Been in mill work 2 years. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

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

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Women of the congregation of Wheeley's Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina

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Mr. Taylor and wage laborer slide the tobacco to barn from the field, about quarter of a mile. Granville County, North Carolina

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Women assembled at Wheeley's Church near Gordonton, North Carolina, to clean up church and grounds on annual cleaning up day

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Willie Lee, 24 Ozark Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 10 years old. Been in mill 2 months. Doffer. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.