Child Labor
![Child Labor in the Cotton Mills of Mississippi](images/tm032-th.jpg)
Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
Child Labor in the
Cotton Mills of Mississippi,
April-May 1911
Typescript report
Manuscript Division
![Child Labor in the Gulf Coast](images/s55.4a-th.jpg)
Edward F. Brown
Child Labor in the Gulf Coast
National Child Labor Committee
Page 2
Carbon typescript copy, 1913
Manuscript Division
Gift of the National Child Labor Committee,
1954 (55.4a,b)
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The National Child Labor Committee campaigned for tougher state
and federal laws against the abuses of industrial child labor,
and Lewis Hine was its greatest publicist. A teacher who left
his profession to work full-time as investigator for the committee,
Hine prepared a number of the Committee's reports and took some
of the most powerful images in the history of documentary photography.
The Library holds the papers of the Committee, including the reports,
field notes, correspondence, and over 5,000 of Hine's photographs
and negatives. This album depicts children at work in canneries
and is accompanied by a follow-up report for a group of canneries
previously investigated by Hine.
![Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills and Spinning Room](images/vc007060-th.jpg)
Interior of Magnolia (Miss.)
Cotton Mills and Spinning Room
Image 2
![Group of Workers in Clayton, N.C. Cotton Mills](images/at0055B13s-th.jpg)
Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
Group of Workers in Clayton, N.C. Cotton Mills,
October 1912
Image 2
Photographic album
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the National Child Labor Committee, 1954 (55B.13, 55B.14)
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