Young Mill Worker

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A young girl, pictured in 1909, works as a spinner in a Georgia cotton mill. Children were a signficant presence in the state's textile mills, accounting for 24 percent of the workforce in 1890.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Young Mill Worker

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