Keywords: Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 P.M. on a cold, dark December day - NARA - 523139.tif Scope and content Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 P M on a cold dark December day They do not come out again until 6A M When they went home the next morning they were all drenched by a heavy cold rain and had few or no wraps Two of the smaller girls with three other sisters work on the night shift and support a big lazy father who complains he is not well enough to work He loafs around the country store The oldest three of these sisters have been in the mill for 7 years and the two youngest two years The latter earns 84 cents a night each There are three small children at home to recruit the family finances when necessary The two girls on the rear end of the line were about 50 inches high One has been in the mill 2 years 1/2 a year at night and runs 8 sides part of the time The other has been in the mill 2 years; ----- 1 year at night They both look under 12 years old Whitnel N C General notes 523139 Local identifier 102-LH-435 Department of Commerce and Labor Children's Bureau 1912 - 1913 NARA-Author Hine Lewis Wickes 1874-1940 Photographer 1122914 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 12/1908 Record group Record Group 102 Records of the Children's Bureau 1908 - 2003 Record group ARC 431 National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine compiled ca 1912 - ca 1912 documenting the period 1908 - 1912 Series ARC 523064 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-102-LH-435 yes Other versions <gallery> File Flashlight_photo_of_children_on_night_shift_going_to_work_at_6_P M _on_a_cold _dark_December_day_-_NARA_-_523139 tif tif File Flashlight_photo_of_children_on_night_shift_going_to_work_at_6_P M _on_a_cold _dark_December_day_-_NARA_-_523139 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Child labor in the United States NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |