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Photographer: Lewis Wickes Hine
Taken: June 1911
Caption: Matoaca Mill Workers
Additional Description: Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Va. June 1911. The little ones on left end "only help some. Have to be 14 to work." Found very few very young workers. Times are slack. Many of the hands have found work in Petersburg. Location: Matoaca, Virginia. Library of Congress [LC-DIG-nclc-02184]
Submitted: October 18, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p177528
File Size: 0.148 Megabytes

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