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![Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "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. (See photos.) 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 the 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. (See also Vaughn's [?] Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Location: Columbus, Georgia.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvZWFnbGUtYW5kLXBob2VuaXgtbWlsbC1kaW5uZXItdG90ZXJzLXdhaXRpbmctZm9yLXRoZS1nYXRlLXRvLW9wZW4tdGhpcy1pcy1jYXJyaWVkLTEtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "Eagle and Phoenix Mill. \"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. (See photos.) 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 the 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. (See also Vaughn's [?] Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Location: Columbus, Georgia.")
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Thomas Waterman Wood - Market Woman - Google Art Project
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Google Cultural Institute
Public domain photograph of 19th-century female portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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1858
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Google Cultural Institute
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public domain
