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End of work day at Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth

END OF WORK DAY AT TIDEWATER KNITTING MILL, PORTSMOUTH
Portsmouth, June 1911
"As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth Va. I went through the mill several times while they were working and saw a number of boys and girls surely under fourteen." (Hine's caption)


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