- Artist/Maker:
- Lewis Wickes Hine
- Bio:
- American, 1874-1940
- Title:
- Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, Fayetteville, Tennessee
- Portfolio/Series:
- National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
- Date:
- 1910
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- 4 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (12.1 × 16.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of The Paul Strand Trust for the benefit of Virginia Stevens
- Accession Number:
- 2008-66
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Until child labor was abolished in the United States in 1938, many children worked long hours in hazardous factory jobs. Doffers had the dangerous task of replacing spools of thread in a textile mill.
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