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OLYMPIA MILL AND VILLAGE “Across the South, cotton mills were constructed at explosive rates. Fourteen mills stood in South Carolina in 1880, even fewer than in 1860. But between 1895 and 1907, sixty-one new textile mills were built and older ones were expanded and updated. By 1910, there were 167 cotton mills in South Carolina,…
The sacrifice of innocents: Haunting images from 1911 show workers who lied about their ages to keep their families from starving… as they made toys for other children Photographs taken by teacher-turned-photojournalist Lewis Wickes Hine in mills in Winchendon, Massachusetts capture children as they endured unsafe conditions, long hours and poor pay…