1800s Archive · Machinery & technology

"OUR BABY DOFFER" they called him. This is one of the machines he has been working at for some months at the Avondale Mills. Said, after hesitation, "I'm 12," and another small boy added, "He can't work unless he's twelve." Child labor regulations conspicuously posted in the mill. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Birmingham · 1910

"OUR BABY DOFFER" they called him. This is one of the machines he has been working at for some months at the Avondale Mills. Said, after hesitation, "I'm 12," and another small boy added, "He can't work unless he's twelve." Child labor regulations conspicuously posted in the mill. Location: Birmingham, Alabama., Birmingham, 1910
"OUR BABY DOFFER" they called him. This is one of the machines he has been working at for some months at the Avondale Mills. Said, after hesitation, "I'm 12," and another small boy added, "He can't work unless he's twelve." Child labor regulations conspicuously posted in the mill. Location: Birmingham, Alabama., Birmingham, 1910. Machinery & technology — The 1800s Archive, from the Library of Congress record.

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