Child Laborers in Textile Mills

This famous photo by Lewis W. Hines shows child laborers in a Macon, GA textile mill in the early 1900s. Hines’s caption reads: “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.” Hines’s image is an apt representation of child laborers in cotton mills South and North