Original Caption: "Rhodes Mfg. Co. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Lincolnton, N.C., 11/11/1908
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U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-249
From:: Series: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine, compiled ca. 1912 - ca. 1912, documenting the period 1908 - 1912
Created By:: Department of Commerce and Labor. Children's Bureau. (1912 - 1913)
Production Date: 11/11/1908
Photographer: Hine, Lewis Wickes
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Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
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gavinvz 31 months ago | reply
She was building a better future for the next generation.
ADAM JAHNKE 31 months ago | reply
quite the burden to bear as an 11 year old.
tohu777 31 months ago | reply
When you see the kids in these century-old photos, and reflect on the fact that the subjects lived their lives - no matter how long they lived - and are gone, you're made to wonder about all that happened in the intervening years...
And just think: her great-grandchildren (if indeed she had children; if indeed she lived through the later flu pandemic circa 1918; or survived polio, or measles...) could be browsing through the images in flickr, unaware that she's pictured here, looking out that window at god-knows what sort of miserable industrial vista...
thethirdcell 28 months ago | reply
This should be the poster child for the Republican Party as they and their cohorts, the Tea Party wage a campaign against the American worker and Unions!