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Lewis Wickes Hine photographs, 1909-1913

The collection consists of photographs by Lewis W. Hine from 1909-1913 depicting child laborers in Georgia. The photographs show mill children at their work or grouped before the mills. A few of the photographs show the shantytowns surrounding the mills where the children lived with their families. The collection includes photographs from the following Georgia mill sites: Augusta, Columbus, LaFayette, Lindale, Macon, Rome, Rossville, Tifton, and Valdosta.

More About This Collection

Creator
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940

Date of Original
1909/1913

Subject
Augusta (Ga.)
Macon, (Ga.)
Manufactures--Georgia
Mills and mill-work--Georgia
Photographers--Georgia
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918--Photographs
Valdosta (Ga.)
Rossville (Ga.)
Tifton (Ga.)
Columbus (Ga.)
Rome (Ga.)
Lindale (Ga.)
LaFayette (Ga.)
LaFayette (Ga.)--History

Location
United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Lindale, 34.18676, -85.17467
United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
United States, Georgia, Tift County, Tifton, 31.45046, -83.5085
United States, Georgia, Troup County, LaGrange, 33.03929, -85.03133
United States, Georgia, Walker County, LaFayette, 34.7048, -85.2819
United States, Georgia, Walker County, Rossville, 34.98313, -85.28607

Medium
photographs

Type
Still Image

Description
The collection consists of photographs by Lewis W. Hine from 1909-1913 depicting child laborers in Georgia. The photographs show mill children at their work or grouped before the mills. A few of the photographs show the shantytowns surrounding the mills where the children lived with their families. The collection includes photographs from the following Georgia mill sites: Augusta, Columbus, LaFayette, Lindale, Macon, Rome, Rossville, Tifton, and Valdosta.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), documentary photographer, in 1908 he was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document child labor conditions in the United States.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_989

Language
eng

Rights Holder
Copyright of these photos is held by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Permission to publish must be obtained from Tom Beck, Chief Curator, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 5401 Wilkins Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, 21228-5398; beck(at)umbc.edu or 410.455.3827.

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights