Child Laborers at Avondale Mills, 1910

Child laborers pose on the Avondale Mills property for photographer and social reformer Lewis Hine. During the early twentieth century, Hine documented the plight of young factory workers and the poor for the National Child Labor Committee.

Group portrait of child and teenage mill workers standing outside of Avondale Mills in Birmingham, Alabama, 1910
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Group portrait of child and teenage mill workers standing outside of Avondale Mills in Birmingham, Alabama, 1910