Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "Dinner-toters" waiting for the gate to open. ... Location: Columbus, Georgia (LOC)
Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.
Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "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. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to the machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's [?] Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Location: Columbus, Georgia.
1913 April.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 3444.
Subjects:
Boys.
Food.
Delivering.
Baskets.
United States--Georgia--Columbus.
Format: Photographic prints.
Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 2004667950
General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.02825
Call Number: LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3444
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getolina, Ornickarr Greenbarrow, forever's a long time, D to the K, and 40 other people added this photo to their favorites.
artolog (3 months ago | reply)
The Eagle and Phenix Mill in Columbus, Georgia, was once the largest textile mill in the country. Now it's remodeled for condominiums with "unsurpassed urban living in thriving downtown Columbus". Hopefully, the delivery people serving the new residents are older than this little guy.
columbusgawedding.com/venues/eagle-phenix-mil l/
Posteriormente (3 months ago | reply)
Fortunatelly the world has changed for better!
swanq (3 months ago | reply)
userpages.umbc.edu/~arubin/HIST402_SP2007/EAC 8B9745E34B73...
is what looks like a class paper on the topic of "dinner-toters" based on Hine's photos. www.jstor.org/stable/1011879 is a 1911 piece by another National Child Labor Committee activist.
The Dinner Toter. Charles L. Coon. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , Vol. 38, Supplement: Uniform Child Labor Laws (Jul., 1911), pp. 85-89
This photo was invited and added to the More Than Portraits group.
mambo1935 (3 months ago | reply)
poor kid!
artolog (3 months ago | reply)
Great links, thanks.
Raccoon Photo (3 months ago | reply)
Wow, amazing photograph. Very troubling.