This photo, from the Library of Congress, depicts what it says is a typical worker at Barker Cotton Mills in Mobile. Taken in October 1914, it was one in a series of photos by Lewis Hine, who was a photographer hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document the working and living conditions of laborers in the United States. The mill opened in 1900 in an area that would later become Prichard.
This article appears in the March 2026 issue of Business Alabama.
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