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Boy at Loom, Cotton Mill, Indiana, 1908
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A Lewis Hine silver print circa 1906-1918. One in a series of photographs made for The National Child Labor Committee. A boy working at a loom in a desolate cotton mill. The boy's pants are covered in cotton bits. He wears stockings, but is without shoes.
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Credit lineBoy at Loom, Cotton Mill, Indiana, 1908. ca 1906-1918. Hine, Lewis. National Museum of American History. CC0.
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