Mrs. Fannie Foster, a widow in the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va. The smallest girl has been in the mill for a year.

Mrs. Fannie Foster, a widow in the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va. The smallest girl has been in the mill for a year. The other one has been in the mill but work was so slack that she made only about two dollars a week so she thought she better quit. Got a job in a Petersburg silk mill. Another daughter has work in a Petersburg trunk factory. Location: Matoaca, Virginia. Date Created/Published: 1911 June. LOC original medium: 1 photographic print. Child labour pic by Lewis Hine.


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