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Contents : Living Search reveals flesh and bones of an iconic image Page 1 of 4 This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp.cfm id no 60600282006 as retrieved on Oct 5 2007 05:38:58 GMT. G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web. The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting. This cached page may reference images which are no longer available. Click here for the cached text only. To link to or bookmark this page use the following url: http://www.google.com/search q cache:8A9rMFMc5G0J:www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp.cfm%3Fid no% 3D60600282006+addie+card+daily+hampshire&hl en&ct clnk&cd 1&gl us&client firefox-a Google is neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. These search terms have been highlighted: addie card daily hampshire YOUR GAZETTENET SUBSCRIPTION Login/Subscribe : Account Center : Forgot/change password : Problems : FAQs : Log Out / What's Free on GazetteNET Search reveals flesh and bones of an iconic image BY PHOEBE MITCHELL STAFF WRITER Originally published on: Tuesday June 06 2006 Addie Card was 12 years old when photographer Lewis Hine took her picture at work in a cotton mill in North Pownal Vt. She stands in dirty bare feet in a rumpled stained smock in front of an industrial loom a maze of steel parts and thread spindles. She stares directly at the camera her left arm propped almost casually on the monstrous machine behind her. Taken in 1910 Hine's photograph - one of some 50 000 he took documenting labor violations for the National Child Labor Committee became one of his most famous and now serves as a bleak reminder of an era when children labored in the nation's factories and mills. The photograph has been reprinted numerous times was featured on a 1998 United States 32-cent postal stamp and in recent years in a Reebok advertisement condemning child labor. It also inspired children's author Elizabeth Winthrop to write a novel that imagines Addie's life as a millworker. When the book was finished 'Counting on Grace' (Random House $15.95) was released in March Winthrop began a quest to find out what had happened to the real Addie. Winthrop turned to her friend Florence writer photographer songwriter and genealogist Joe Manning to help her with the search. JERREY ROBERTS At his Florence home in May Joe Manning holds a photograph of millworker Addie Card 12 taken by Lewis Hine in 1910 and displays some of the records he uncovered in his genealogical research on Card's life. Enlarge photo Buy photos From the start Manning 64 said he was very excited by the prospect of trying to uncover the fate of Addie Card. 'You look at the picture of the girl and I feel what Lewis Hine probably wanted me to feel. Her look is like she's saying 'What are you going to do about my problem - right now. What are you going to do about this little girl not in school working in this mill.'' When Winthrop asked him if he was interested in the project over dinner at a restaurant he said 'I just wanted to tear out the door (and) get going.' http://64.233.167.104/search q cache:8A9rMFMc5G0J:www.dailyhampshiregazette.co... 10/13/2007 Living Search reveals flesh and bones of an iconic image Page 2 of 4 And that's just about what he did. Manning spent the next month in Vermont and upstate New York where he suspected Addie or her family may have lived trying to find out what became of her. He paged through birth death and census records city directories and newspaper archives conducted Internet searches and called funeral homes. His search yielded promising leads that ended in dead ends and many serendipitous moments as well. One day after hours of searching through records in the Bennington Vt. town hall netted the birth certificate and married name of Addie's daughter Ruth Manning stopped off on his way south at the former location of the North Pownal mill that had employed Addie. A bench now sits near where the long-since demolished building stood. 'I get out of my car and go over and sit on the bench. I'm a romantic guy right A writer ' said Manning. 'I look out at the water and yell out 'Addie tell me where you are.' He got an answer of sorts a day later when a Google search turned up the name and email address of someone he thought might be her granddaughter. Emailing her about his search along with a photo of Addie the woman responded almost immediately confirming his hunch. 'It took some intuition and looking in the right places ' he said. Along the way he and Winthrop found out that Addie worked in the mill from age 8 until she was 22 marrying a co-worker at age 17 in 1915. When that marriage ended in divorce 10 years later custody of their daughter Ruth went to her father. Manning's research led him to Ruth's granddaughter who told him that Ruth never forgave her mothe

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