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Rhea Quintin: 1916
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/25/2007 - 11:52pm.
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June 1916. Fall River, Mass. "Rhea Quintin, 14 years old. Drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about three months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little schoolgirl coming for some other purpose." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Webb Frame?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 10:29pm.
What exactly is she doing here? Something with textiles, I assume, but what?
Health Risks
Submitted by JackCoupal on Thu, 12/27/2007 - 10:38am.
The health risks of breathing cotton and other dusts in textile mills in New England and the Carolinas are well publicized.
We still have to figure out why many kids worked in those mills until they were old adults and still lived to a ripe old age.
Sorta like the tobacco smoking controversy.
Old age
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 12/26/2007 - 9:09pm.
It seems a lot of these mill girls lived well into their 90's...
re: Rhea Quintin
Submitted by slr in tx on Wed, 12/26/2007 - 5:56pm.
While nearly every picture posted here speaks to me, some speak a little more eloquently or affectingly than others.
Happy Holidays and BTW, God bless Lewis Wickes Hine.
Rhea
Submitted by H.M.E. on Wed, 12/26/2007 - 3:25pm.
Sounds a lot less condemnatory than the usual Hine captions. Almost admiring...
Rhea Quintin
Submitted by joemanning on Wed, 12/26/2007 - 7:10am.
This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. According to the census and Massachusetts death records, Rhea Quintin was born on Sept 7, 1901, and died in Fall River, Mass, on Feb 15, 1998, at the age of 96. She never married. She worked at the former Boott Cotton Mill.
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