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One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills","titletype":"Published","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1973-28","inscribed":"In graphite, verso: Child working in a cotton mill / Photo'd 1908 by Lewis Hine\r\nfor the Nat'l Child Labor Committee. / S.C. [sic] Mill\r\n\r\nIn crayon, verso [crossed out in graphite]: Exact size as cropped 47E [underlined] 5 11//16 x 4 7//16 hold to depth. \r\n\r\nNumbered in graphite, verso: 9502\r\n\r\nNumbered in graphite, verso: 7\r\n","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nHine, a social activist employed by the National Child Labor Committee, was hailed as one of the most influential investigative photojournalists of the Progressive era for his images of child labor in urban America. 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