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Field-workers, Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. See Report, L.W. Hine. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut

Field-workers, Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. See Report, L.W. Hine. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut.

Field-workers, Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. See Report, L.W. Hine. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut.

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01/01/1917
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Gildersleeve ,  41.59677, -72.62093
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[African Americans, mostly women, sorting tobacco at the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia]

[Marker by fence reading "Here fell Henry C. Merwin, Lt. Colonel, 27th Conn. vols.," Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]

1209 East Thirteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence / Kellogg Brothers, photographers, 279 Main St., Hartford, Conn.

"Grubbing out the fence corners." See also 4440. A common scene in the Fall. Boys are 9, 12, 15 and 17 years old. Father, R.A. Cave, Route 2, Box 56, Cecilia, Ky. The children go to Long Grove School. Location: Hardin County--Cecilia, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

8 and 10 year old children of Walker family pulling and pilling beets. See 4018. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

Group of field-workers at Huttings Tobacco Farm. One of 9 years, two of 11 years, 8 of 12 years, 5 of 13 years, 3 of 14 years, 1 of 15. Four of 11 and 12 had gone home and were not counted. Most of these get $1.50 a day. Location: Rockwell, Connecticut L.W. Hine

1905 East Fifteenth Avenue (House), Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Mrs. Lofty and I. H. De Marsan, words by Mrs. C. H. Gildersleeve. Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, N. Y

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or 6. Lives in Bowling Green. Location: Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

New Haven, Conn., March 8, 1909. Messenger boys. They work until 11 P.M. Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

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