• Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

View of wooden building typically occupied by workers from Rome Hosiery Mill, Rome, Georgia, United States

9 April 1913

Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee.
Caption from NCLC caption card: "Some of the workers in the Rome (Ga) Ho[s]iery Mill live in shacks like these".

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 9.4 x 11.3 cm mat: 20.3 x 25.4 cm sheet: 12.4 x 17.6 cm

PH1980:1137

numbered - N. 3382 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, CR); 3382 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, LR) inscribed - National Child Labor Committee / No.3382 /Some of the workers in the Rome (Ga) Hoiery [sic] / Mill live in shacks like these. / Photo by / Lewis W. Hine. / [crossed out] / April 9, 1913. (typed in blue ink, on paper adhered to verso). Rome Hosiery Mill (in pencil, in unknown hand, on paper adhered to verso)

Rome; Georgia; United States;