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Collections >> The North Carolina Experience >> Document Menu >> 9 - No. 12.--SCOTLAND MILLS, LAURINBURG, N. C. Tallest lad about fourteen years old, has worked eight years in mill, six years at night. The next in height has worked there three years. No. 13.--DICKSON MILL, LAURINBURG, N. C. Children of night superintendent. Bessie runs four sides, his worked two years at night. Frank (smallest) doffer, has worked two years at night. George (largest) doffer, has worked three years at night. Was proud that he could write his name. Night work of all these children is illegal.
Alexander Jeffrey McKelway, 1866-1918, A. E. Seddon, A. H. Ulm, and Lewis Wickes Hine, 1874-1940
Child Labor in the Carolinas: [A]ccount of Investigations Made in the Cotton Mills of North and South Carolina, by Rev. A. E. Seddon, A. H. Ulm and Lewis W. Hine, under the Direction of the Southern Office of the National Child Labor Committee.
[New York]: [National Child Labor Committee], [1909].

No. 12.--SCOTLAND MILLS, LAURINBURG, N. C.
Tallest lad about fourteen years old, has worked eight years in mill, six years at night. The next in height has worked there three years.
No. 13.--DICKSON MILL, LAURINBURG, N. C.
Children of night superintendent. Bessie runs four sides, his worked two years at night. Frank (smallest) doffer, has worked two years at night. George (largest) doffer, has worked three years at night. Was proud that he could write his name. Night work of all these children is illegal.

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Subjects:
  • Child labor--North Carolina--1900-1910.
  • Factories--North Carolina--1900-1910.
  • Mills--North Carolina--1900-1910.