Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Lewis W. Hine
Anemic Little Spinner in Cotton Mill, North Pownal Cotton Mill (Addie Card)
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October 5, 03:36 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Lewis W. Hine
1874 - 1940
Anemic Little Spinner in Cotton Mill, North Pownal Cotton Mill (Addie Card)
gelatin silver print, credit and number '1056' in pencil on the reverse, 1910
image: 4 ⅝ by 3 ½ in. (11.7 by 8.9 cm.)
Karl Steinorth, ed., Lewis Hine: Passionate Journey, Photographs 1905-1937 (Zürich, 1996), p. 120
Vicki Goldberg, Lewis W. Hine: Children at Work (New York, 1999), dust jacket and p. 53
The subject of this photograph is Addie Card, who was described by Hine in the original caption card for this picture as simply 'anemic little spinner.' E. F. Brown, an employee of the National Child Labor Committee who accompanied Hine and also wrote some of the reports and caption cards, provided further identification: 'Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal [sic] Cotton Mill. Vt. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and new [sic] would "stay."'
Hine's portrait of Addie Card was immortalized on a U. S. postage stamp in 1998. It later served as inspiration for the novel Counting on Grace (2007) by Elizabeth Winthrop. For years misidentified as Addie "Laird," Addie Card lived until age 94.