Since Joe was 19 when Hine photographed him, he was hardly a child laborer. He was simply identified in several photos where some of the others pictured were under the legal age of 14, which was the law in Massachusetts at the time. Given the times, Joe could very well have been working at the mill for more than five years. The area called Tannery Yard, where Allard lived, was about 200 feet west of the Barber Leather Mill, which has since been partially demolished. The mill housing that he lived in was along the Hoosic River, and was torn down in the 1960s. It's just a vacant lot now with scrubby trees and underbrush along the river, which is now a flood chute built by the Army Corps of Engineers. The area experienced a devastating flood in 1927. To see more information about the Eclipse Mill, see the links at the end of this story.