This little girl like many others in this state is so small she has to stand on a box to reach her machine ... Location: Loudon, Tennessee (LOC)

    Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.

    This little girl like many others in this state is so small she has to stand on a box to reach her machine. She is regularly employed as a knitter in London [i.e., Loudon?] Hosiery Mills. Said she did not know how long she had worked there. (See other photos and report.) Location: Loudon, Tennessee.

    1910 December.

    1 photographic print.

    Notes:
     Title from NCLC caption card.
    Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
    In album: Mills.
    Hine no. 1883.
    There is both a Loudon and a London, Tennessee. UMBC records similar photos as "Loudon," however.

    Subjects:
     Girls.
    Textile mill workers.
    Mills.
    Hosiery industry.
    Textile machinery.
    United States--Tennessee--Loudon.

    Format: Photographic prints.

    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.02003

    Call Number: LOT 7479, v. 3, no. 1883

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