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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 2 records found where LC Subject Heading is Child labor -- Virginia -- 19th century
	Letter from A. T. Powell to Richard Harvey Wright, January 17, 1889 A. T. Powell, secretary and treasurer of the Lone Jack Cigarette Company in Durham, North Carolina, describes a gruesome industrial accident that caused the death of a child in the Lynchburg cigarette factory. He notes that the Coroner called the death accidental.
	Letter from A. T. Powell to Richard Harvey Wright, January 18, 1889 A. T. Powell, secretary and treasurer of the Lone Jack Cigarette Company in Lynchburg, Virginia writes his general manager, Richard H. Wright that he has conducted an inquiry into the events that led to the death of Russell Candler, a child laborer. Powell reports further that the Coroner believes the accident could be attributed solely to the "carelessness" of the child.

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