Lewis Hine took six photographs in South Boston, Virginia, all of children and families who worked at the Century Cotton Mill, later the Halifax Damask Mills, sometimes called simply the Halifax Cotton Mill. That is where Florine's father would have been working until there was "slack work." His new "up-town" job was probably at one of the tobacco processing factories or warehouses. Florine would have also worked at Century until, as Hine said, "the lint affected her so much they had to take her out." According to an illustrated walking tour posted on OldHalifax.com, the Halifax Damask Mill "held the patent for the red-checked damask which is used for tablecloths in so many restaurants worldwide."

The following is from a 1986 application by the town to obtain nomination of the area around the Halifax Cotton Mill to the National Register of Historic Places.

"While South Boston's late 19^th-century economy depended upon the tobacco industry, the textile industry also figured prominently in the early development of the town. In 1897 the Century Cotton Mill, later known as Halifax Cotton Mill, was established along Railroad Avenue, southwest of town. The original two-story brick factory still survives. A larger rectangular structure punctuated by rows of tall segmental-arched windows on both floors, its most characteristic feature is a tall square brick entrance tower centrally positioned along the building's principal façade. The tower has tall paired round-arched windows and a horizontal row of circular openings on each elevation. Brick corbelling and heavy crenellation gives the tower a medieval appearance. Sympathetic rear and side additions date from around 1927."

"Situated on a hill high above the Halifax Cotton Mill is a collection of forty-eight dwellings that were originally built around 1900 as employee housing by the cotton mill. Comprising a company town set apart from the city below, this area consists of modest single-story frame houses of three types. Most of the houses are weatherboarded structures with shallow gable roofs and paired or single central brick chimneys and a simple three-bay porch. Other houses, perhaps residences of higher ranking employees, are larger hip-roofed structures with asymmetrically positioned recessed front porches. At least two houses are 1 ½-story New England saltbox-type dwellings with central brick chimneys and full-length five-bay front porches. Situated on general lots, these houses were probably inhabited by foremen or managers of the cotton mill and their families. Although now individually owned by residents, the houses have retained a basic uniformity with few modern alterations."

The millhouses were just south of the mill, along Summit Drive and the tiny streets off Summit. The house in Hine's photograph was probably one of them. The mill was demolished about 10 years ago, except for the tower and a smokestack.