Delta Cotton Mills,McComb,Mississippi,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,1911,4

Title: All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Smallest boy, a band-boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littelson, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1911 May.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 2090.
Subjects:
Boys.
Men.
Textile mill workers.
Cotton industry.
Literacy.
United States--Mississippi--McComb.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004001159/PP/
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