#thread production

[historyofchildhood]

Child laborers at the Washington Cotton Mills in Fries, Virginia from the National Archives. 

Source caption: A part of the spinning force working in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Group posed by the overseer. All work. The overseer said, "These boys are a bad lot." All were aware of the need for being 14 years old when questioned.

Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, May 1911