"Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full."

Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma
Excerpt from photo description by Lewis Hine

"Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him....Understands not a word of English."

Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Excerpt from photo description by Lewis Hine

"Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the empty bobbins."

Location: Macon, Georgia
Excerpt from photo description by Lewis Hines