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Image: Child Labor in United States 1908, 12 hour night shifts

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Description: Photographer: Hine, Lewis Wickes

Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 PM on a cold dark December night.

Work shift lasts all night, 12 hours.

They do not come out again until 6:00 AM

Child workers on their way to a night shift at Whitnel Cottton Mills. North Carolina, USA 1908.

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Author: Preus museum
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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