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This sepia-toned photograph depicts a young girl standing next to a piece of machinery in an industrial setting. The girl has pale skin and dark hair that is tied up behind her head, and she looks out at us with large eyes and a neutral expression. She is wearing a plaid apron over a patterned dress with rolled-up sleeves, and her feet are bare and dirty. She has one of her arms bent behind her, resting casually on the large machine, which is full of spindles and spools loaded with white thread. Debris is scattered on the dark wooden floor.
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This sepia-toned photograph depicts a young girl standing next to a piece of machinery in an industrial setting. The girl has pale skin and dark hair that is tied up behind her head, and she looks out at us with large eyes and a neutral expression. She is wearing a plaid apron over a patterned dress with rolled-up sleeves, and her feet are bare and dirty. She has one of her arms bent behind her, resting casually on the large machine, which is full of spindles and spools loaded with white thread. Debris is scattered on the dark wooden floor.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in cotton mill, North Pownal, Vermont

Lewis Hine

Date
1910
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2014.164.1
Credit line
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • gelatin silver print
  • child
  • portrait
  • Factory
  • Worker
Provenance

Lewis Hine, New York; National Child Labor Committee, New York; (Alan Klotz Gallery, New York); Private Collection; NGA purchase (through Alan Klotz Gallery, New York), 2014.

Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 1050; stamped, upper center in black ink: Lewis W. Hine / Interpretive Photography / Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; by unknown hand, lower center: PO789LH; lower right: 16; on label, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 280; typed in black ink, upper center: ANAEMIC LITTLE SPINNER IN A / NEW ENGLAND COTTON MILL.; lower left: Cotton Mills / N-1050; lower center: Photo-Study by Lewis W. Hine; lower right: North Pownal, Vt. / August 1910; stamped in black ink, lower right: NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE / 145 EAST 32nd STREET / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 16

NGA object ID 165230. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.