Bibframe Instance
TitleAccident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mille [i.e., Mill], Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years old (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter.": Location: Bessemer City, North CarolinaNoteTitle from NCLC caption card.Attribution to Hine based on provenance.In album: Mills.Hine no. 3112.In phrase "when he found the boy," the word boy is underlined on the caption card.General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at:Could not render: bf:electronicLocatorExtent1 photographic print.Provision ActivityPublication: United States 1912 Publication: 1912 October 23 Usage And Access PolicyFor reference access, please use the digital item to preserve the fragile original item.No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "National Child Labor Committee (Lewis Hine photographs),"Could not render: bf:electronicLocatorPreferred CitationCredit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Acquisition SourceDLC Stock Number:LC-DIG-nclc-02697 (color digital file from b&w original print) DLC Stock Number:LC-USZ62-74039 (b&w film copy negative) 