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Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garrett's place, Negro tenant of Mr. Fred Wilkins. White women don't go to Negro shucking to help with the cooking but white men are fed by Negro women just the same as at other shucking week previous at Mr. Fred Wilkins' home. Tally Ho, Near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina

An old black and white photo of a woman picking cotton. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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

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10 yr. old picker on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

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

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Group of pickers on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

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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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Farm, farm workers, Mt. Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Farmers during Great Depression

Taking burley tobacco in from the fields after it has been cut to dry and cure in the barn. On Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

On the Pleasant Street Dump. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Pete Trombetta (and Padrone in the background) is 10 years of age, working his 6th season. He is the carrier for the Trombetta family. The tray of berries weighing between 25 and 30 lbs., and so long as the family is working in the fields, and as fast as they pick a tray, little Pete hurries off to the farmer. While waiting for the tray to be filled, little Pete picks berries. Edward F. Brown, Investigator, Seaford, Del. Location: Seaford, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 28th, 1910.

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Two girl pickers (close up)

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

Stripping tobacco on the farm of Mr. William and Mr. Martin O'Donnell. The three workers in the background are Polish hired helpers. Windsorville, Connecticut

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