Mamie Laberge
Winchendon, Massachusetts, 1911
Photo by Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940)

Pictured above is Mamie Laberge, a spinner in the Spring Village Mill in Winchendon, Massachusetts. The photo was taken in 1911 by Lewis W. Hine who photographed children at work for the National Child Labor Committee of New York from 1908 to 1931.

For more detailed information on Mamie Laberge and her family, visit Joe Manning's website.

References:

Brault, Gerard J. The French-Canadian Heritage in New England Hanover, NH 1986. Available from Quintin Publications.

Brault, Gerard. "Genealogy and Photographs: Photographs of French Canadian Children Working in New England Textile Mills by Lewis W. Hine, 1908-1916." French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review, Vol. VIII, p. 132.

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