Neat to read how genealogy sleuthing
when combined with examining and matching photos from later in life helped
solve a mystery. Read Mystery of iconic 1908 Lincolnton child labor photo is solved to learn
how census records, public appeals and the talents of Maureen Taylor (The
Photo Detective) to solve this mystery.
You can access the National Child
Labor Committee Collection of images on the Library of
Congress website. You can search the
images by location (I checked both “North
Carolina
His photographs remind us what it
was like to be a child and to labor like an adult at a time when labor was
harsher than it is now. Hine's images of working children stirred America
I will check this collection out further for Salem and Peabody MA. My emigrant ancestors, were children in those
communities in the early 1900s after emigrating – did they maybe work in a
factory at a young age ?
Were any of your family members child laborers in a factory (versus on the family farm or in a family business) ?
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