Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
Immigration, Urbanization, and Identity: The Progressive Era City #3002
Metadata
Date: January 19, 1909
Location: Macon, Georgia
Photographer: Lewis Hine
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection, LC-DIG-nclc-01581
Caption
Bibb Mill No. 1: Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the empty bobbins.
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