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Tom Polk: 1912
May 1912. Spartanburg, South Carolina. Tom Polk, "goin' on 13." Prematurely old, works in Beaumont Mill. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Squinting for Hine
Of course being dragged out of the dark mill and posed in the sunlight probably didn't help his expression either.
What is wrong with his mouth?
Are his lips just extremely chapped? Actually looks like dried blood as it appears to be on his teeth also.
[Beverage mustache. - Dave]
Tom Polk
Back when the men were men and so were the boys.
I look at this and think about my 40-year-old co-worker complaining about how Barney's no longer sells his favorite mango-papaya anti-wrinkle eye cream.
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