Child Labor in the Mills (Blog #3)

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This is a picture of a little mill girl looking out the window. It seems as if she is daydreaming about something. Maybe she is wishing she could be outside playing or wishing that she could be home with her parents. It must have been hard for children that had to work in the mills. They didn't get to enjoy their childhood. They just worked all day and didn't get much time to just be a kid. I feel like this photo really shows that because this girl is displaying a longing to be somewhere other than the mills. This really looks like the kind of photo that would be on the cover of a book that tells a story of this girl that always wanted to go on adventures and dreamed about her prince charming, but the reality of her life is completely different from her dreams. Maybe someday some writer will come across this photo and have the same idea.