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November 1908. Chester, South Carolina. Tommy Ashville (smaller boy), two years in Wylie Mill. "Specks I'm about 11." Arthur Shelly, eight years in mill, 14 years old. Other boys agreed he had been in mill eight years. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
What always impresses me is the size of the Hine children's hands -- huge. That's what workers were called: hands.
These are Children of the Cotton. Boys with eyes full of lint and tarnation.
And he has more seniority in his job than I do in mine.
... looks like he's from Children of the Corn!
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