Lewis Hine - Cranberry Pickers

 Amelia Louise Sousa, 12 years old. Picks 22 measures. Balmeda 4 years old. Children said she doesn't pick, but she was picking just the same. Falmouth, Baker Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Arnao family. Whole family works. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, NJ, 1910

 Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' since I was 5 years old." Smart's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Carrie Maderyos ready to pick. Said 12 years old. 

Falmouth, Swift's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pa. For this summer she has picked cranberries. This summer is at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, NJ, 1910

 Even the little tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others picking regularly. 

Rochester, Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Fred Nozzecho, five years old. Picking this year. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, NJ, 1910

 General view of Forsythe's Bog, with Padrone. Pemberton, New Jersey, 1910

 Joe carrying cranberries. Said 10 years old. Picks also. 

Falmouth, Swift's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

Manuel Robello, 10 years old. Picks and carries. 

Falmouth, Baker Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers, ctd

 Arthur Sarasin. Works in weaving room. At his house his people said he was fourteen last week. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911

 Family of Albert Senter. Eleven year old Mandy has learned to spin by "helping." The three girls work and Mandy helps, with one eye on a steady job. Fries, Virginia, 1911

 Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, "She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay," but she helps regularly, and says she can run two sides. 1911

 Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Boston, Virginia. 

Runs four sides, 1911

 One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill, Anthony, R.I. (A Polish boy Willie) who was taking his noon rest in a doffer-box, 1909

 Pearl said she was 10 years old and helps her mother in the weave room 

of the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, NC, 1912

 Ruth Barnhill (elder). Been at it 4 years. Run 6 sides. Emma Barnhill 4 years in mill. 4 sides. 

Looked 10 years old. Maple Mills, Dillon, South Carolina, 1908

 Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three girls (in front) work in the mill. This boy and others work up town. Came from an Alabama farm six months ago, 1911

 T.J. Fields and family. The father cards, two girls spin, boy on right end picks up bobbins, Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, 1911

This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Georgia. Runs 4 sides and earns 52 cents a day. Overseer has hand on boy's shoulder, 1909

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers, ctd

Here's another set of Lewis Hine's photos of mill workers - mostly of child laborers.

 The superintendent and one of the spinners, Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, NC. Others smaller still. Ten boys and girls this size and smaller out of a force of 40 employees, 1908

 This little girl is so small she has to stand on a box to reach her machine. She is regularly employed as a knitter in Loudon Hosiery Mills, Loudon, Tennessee, 1910

 Two of the helpers in the Tifton Cotton Mill at Tifton, Georgia, 1909

 Two of the tiny workers, a raveler and a looper in Loudon Hosiery Mills. 

Loudon, Tennessee, 1910

 Warper at his machine, Newton, NC, 1908

[what an amazing picture!]

 Worker in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Georgia, 1913

Young woman at spinning machine in cotton mill. 

Mollahan Mills, Newberry, South Carolina, 1908

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers

Here are some of Lewis Hine's group photos of mill workers.

 A few of the doffers and sweepers in the Mollahan Mills. 

Newberry, South Carolina, 1908

 Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills, 1911

 All 6 work in King Mill, Augusta, Georgia. 

Little girl on end has been there 1 year helping, 1909

 All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910

 All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy "ravels." 

Smallest girl is a steady worker. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910

 All are workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Georgia, 1913

 Boy with coat in hand is 11 years old. Been there 9 months. Started at 50 cents a day. 

Now gets 60 cents. Loray Mill. Gastonia, North Carolina, 1908

 Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Huntsville, Alabama, 1910

 Dinner-Toters waiting for the gate to open. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. Columbus, Georgia, 1913

 Dinner-Toters waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. Columbus, Georgia, 1913

Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911. 

These boys and others work in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Virginia, 1911

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers, ctd

More of Lewis Hine's photos of young people (some very young) working in the mills.

 Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister said, "Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. She started with me at six this morning." 

Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1910

 One of spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., NC. She was 51 inches high. Had been in mill 1 year, some at night. Runs 4 sides, 48 cents a day, 1908

 Spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Georgia. Bad lighting and ventilation in spinning room, 1909

 Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina, 1908

 Spinner in Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Been at it 2 years. 

Where will her good looks be in ten years? 1908

 Spinner, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1916

Spinners in a cotton mill, 1911

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers

Hine took hundreds of pictures of children working in textile mills. Here's the first group of these, all taken of children actually at work in the mills.

 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." December 3, 1908

 Addie Card, 12 years old, anemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, 

Vermont, 1910

 Adrienne Pagnette, an adolescent French illiterate, speaks almost no English. Is probably 14 or 15. Doffs on top floor spinning room in Glenallen Mill, Winchendon, Massachusetts, 1911

 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. 

Macon, Georgia, 1909

 Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. 

South Manchester, Connecticut, 1924

 Girl beginning to spin. Many of these there. Lincolnton, North Carolina, 1908

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Indiana. Girls at weaving machine; warpers, 1908