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English: Title: Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Valley Cotton Mill, West Texas. Their family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister fifteen years old. Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin." The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family.

Abstract: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) Physical description: 1 photographic print.

Notes: Girls.; Textile mill workers.; Textile machinery.; Cotton industry.
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