BUY PRINT April 1913. Columbus, Georgia. "Eagle and Phoenix Mill. A '
dinner-toter' waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry sometimes 10 or more meals 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."
Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
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