Addie Card, 12 Years, Spinner in Cotton Mill, Vermont (Primary Title)

Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874 – 1940 (Artist)

1910
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Image: 4 11/16 × 3 5/8 in. (11.91 × 9.21 cm)
Framed: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
75.60
Not on view
Blue ink stamp on verso: "Property of National Child Labor Committee"
Inscribed negative number in graphite on recto. Inscribed in ink by unknown hand on verso: "Addie Caid - / 12 years / Spinner in / North Pownal Cotton Mill Vt / Girls in mill say / she is ten years. She / admittted to me she / was twelve; that she / started during school / vacation & now _____[?] / ____[?] E. F. Brown [?]."
Virginia Museum Art Purchase Fund
The Likeness of Labor, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, October 17, 2015 - April 10, 2016
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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