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LC-DIG-nclc-02722 Living Conditions

Title: (For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Providence. Eight persons live in these three small rooms, three of them are boarders. Inner bed-rooms are 9 x 8 feet, the largest room 12 x 12 feet. 23 Chaffee Street, Polish People. Property owned by the mill. Rent $4.50 a month. Location: Providence, Rhode Island.

Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

Date Created/Published: 1912 November.

Medium: 1 photographic print.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-02722 (color digital file from b&w original print) LC-USZ62-29101 (b&w film copy negative)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Call Number: LOT 7479, v. 5, no. 3191 [P&P]

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes:

Title from NCLC caption card.

Attribution to Hine based on provenance.

In album: Mills.

Hine no. 3191.

General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc

Subjects:

Textile industry.

Women.

Children.

Labor housing.

Polish Americans.

United States--Rhode Island--Providence.

Format:

Photographic prints.

Collections:

National Child Labor Committee Collection

Part of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Photo Credit: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-nclc-02722

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