Father's Day Father with 2 boys

TITLE: The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father works in the spool room . Mother and 3 children at home. Father said Eddie is a hard worker. The mother told me later when I had to see the family record "The bible's here but the record, hits done got torn up." She said the boys were 12 and 13 years old. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Digital ID: nclc 02563 Source: color digital file from b&w original print Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-02563 (color digital file from b&w original print) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (98 kilobytes)

The idea of Father’s Day was conceived by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father’s Day celebration — June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane’s mayor because it was the month of Smart’s birth.

The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.

CALL NUMBER: LOT 7479, v. 5, no. 2976[P&P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-nclc-02563 (color digital file from b&w original print) No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: 1912 May. CREATOR: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

NOTES: Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2976. City recorded on caption card as "Spartanberg."

PART OF: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (color digital file from b&w original print) nclc 02563 hdl.loc.gov/nclc.02563, CARD #: ncl2004001796/PP

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-DIG-nclc-02563]

MARC Record Line 540 - No known restrictions on publication.

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