Mary and #MinnieGillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were commencing to attend #theMillSchool at Avondale, and had been to school but two weeks in their lives. Were in the low #first grade in company with a child of six years. At that time Nov. 30/10) their father was trying to take them out of school and put them back into the cotton mill. He has no obvious occupation. Location: #Birmingham, #Tennessee.

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