Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
Immigration, Urbanization, and Identity: The Progressive Era City #3032
Metadata
Date: December 1908
Location: Newberry, South Carolina
Photographer: Lewis Hine
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection, LC-DIG-nclc-01451
Caption
A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her “sides” like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, “She just happened in.” Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that “just happened in,” or “are helping sister.”
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