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"Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, Columbus, Georgia, 1913. View full size.
I grew up in Georgia in the '50s and no kid wore shoes from the time school was out until it began again in the fall. And we were very middle class. It's just cultural. Or was.
These kids are bringing the workers dinner, so the mill pays them for that? Does the mill supply the food?
Notice several of the boys on the left side (middle) aiming at the camera. No guns in sight, but they look to be using their imagination.
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