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"Merrimack Mill Employees in 1905. The small children in this photograph worked as sweepers and doffers. They are as young as eight years old and worked 12 hours a day. The overseer of the children was Henry Cleghorn, who is pictured at the far right."
Date: c 1905
Rights: Alabama Mosaic; Huntsville Madison County Public Library