North Carolina Historic photos, documents, and people

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Lumberton Cotton Mills. I saw all the children in this photograph coming out and going in to work when the whistle blew, and they said they worked. Location: Lumberton, North Carolina.

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Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. National Child Labor Committee. No. 469. Smaller girl been in mill for 5 years. Works now in the mill. Jan. 1,1909. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Some of doffers and the Superintendent, Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Ten small boys and girls about this size out of a force of 40 employees. Location: Newton, North Carolina.

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Zollie Lyons, sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five

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Going home from Loray Mill. Smallest boy on the right hand end, John Moore. 13 years old. Been in mill 6 years as sweeper, doffer and spinner. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

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Porch leading to kitchen of sharecropper cabin. They have been putting up strawberries. The sack which hangs on the side wall was used as a strainer Person County, North Carolina

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Type of adolescent found in Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. (and in many other mills in the South). Will Freeman. Been in mill work 4 years. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina.

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A boy who said eleven years old (apparently less) and that he was a sweeper in Loray Cotton Mills, Gastonia, N.C., during the past summer. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

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Cherryville Mfg. Company, An adolescent spinner. Cherryville, N.C. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.