Spinner in a North Carolina cotton mill piecing-up. Room is very noisy, - the air humid and full of lint. High Point, North Carolina

Spinner in a North Carolina cotton mill piecing-up. Room is very noisy, - the air humid and full of lint. High Point, North Carolina

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Spinner in a North Carolina cotton mill piecing-up. Room is very noisy, - the air humid and full of lint. High Point, North Carolina

ca. 1937
Gelatin silver print
24.2 x 19.3 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Property of National Research Project of the
W.P.A. Room 917 - 12S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Not To Be Reproduced
Before Jan. 1938." "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine for National Research
Project of WPA 12S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa."
(applied typed label) "243 Spinner in a N. Carolina cotton mill
piecing-up. Room is very noisy, - the air humid and full of lint."
(in pencil) "243" "High Point, N. Carolina" "51"
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