spinning

29 photos and 8 illustrations tagged spinning, from 18 members of Flickr Commons.

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Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister (in photo) said, "Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. Yes, she started with me at six this mornin'." ... Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee (LOC)

  • Stéphanie Ménard said:
    I really love that picture! It's so fantastic!
  • Ted Partrick said:
    Heartbreaking.

Rhodes Mfg. Co. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Lincolnton, N.C., 11/11/1908

  • Gavin Veasey said:
    She was building a better future for the next generation.
  • dead threat said:
    quite the burden to bear as an 11 year old.
  • tohu777 said:
    When you see the kids in these century-old photos, and reflect on the fact that the subjects lived their lives - no matter how long they lived - and are gone, you're made to wonder about all that happened in the intervening years... And just think: her great-grandchildren (if indeed she had children; if indeed she lived through the later flu pandemic circa 1918; or survived polio, or measles...) could be browsing through the images in flickr, unaware that she's pictured here, looking out that window at god-knows what sort of miserable industrial vista...
  • Paul Jackson said:
    Thank you very much for posting this to the Things They Won't Let Us Do Anymore Group.

Carding wool and spinning, Donegal