Workers at Mobile's Barker Cotton Mills pose for photographer Lewis Hine in October 1914. Hine was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document working and living conditions of laborers in the United States in 1908 and capture thousands of photos by the time he completed his work in 1924. Mobile and other cities were destinations for poor agricultural workers seeking work in industry following the Civil War.
Cotton Mill Workers in Mobile
Courtesy of the Library of Congress; photograph by Lewis Hine
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