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| Keywords: The dependent widower - Wanted, a backbone^ - NARA - 523420.jpg Scope and content The dependent widower Wanted a backbone This ablebodied Scotch-Irish farmer after 50 years of farm life some miles from any railroad came to Meridian Miss two years ago to obtain better school advantages for his children so he told me and this is the way the children utilize those advantages one child of 11 and one of 15 work in the knitting mill Two smaller ones go to school very irregularly I found the fathers occuptaion during the several days I was there and from a neighbor's testimony to mainly consist of loafing around the corner grocery toting dinner to the children lolling around the house and occasionally visiting the old farm Regarding the effects of closing the Meridian Mill he said; Most of the men got work at other factories around here while some moved away but the greatest hardship was on the children Now they have to go to school His sanctimonious disquisition on his love for the family was nauseating In the back ground where the mill children are too often kept is one of his youngsters deprives of his right to toil Meridian Miss General notes 523420 Local identifier 102-LH-2069 Department of Commerce and Labor Children's Bureau 1912 - 1913 NARA-Author Hine Lewis Wickes 1874-1940 Photographer 1122914 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1911 04 26 Record group Record Group 102 Records of the Children's Bureau 1908 - 2003 Record group ARC 431 National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine compiled ca 1912 - ca 1912 documenting the period 1908 - 1912 Series ARC 523064 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-102-LH-2069 Other versions <gallery> File The_dependent_widower_-_Wanted _a_backbone _-_NARA_-_523420 tif tif File The_dependent_widower_-_Wanted _a_backbone _-_NARA_-_523420 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Widowers Child labor in the United States 1911 photographs 1911 in Mississippi | ||||
