faces out of time 009
Neil Power, 10 yrs old, he said, “Turns stockings in Rome Hosiery Mill.” A shy, pathetic figure. “Hain’t been to school much.”
Photographed by Lewis Wickes Hines1 in Rome, Georgia, April 1913.
Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee.
Library of Congress image.
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1 Lewis Wickes Hines was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.
