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Merilda. Carrying cranberries. Witness, Richard K. Conant. Location: Rochester [vicinity] - Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

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01/01/1911
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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label_outline Explore Rochester Eldridge Bog, Eldridge Bog, Conant

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Eldridge Park, Elmira, N.Y. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Carre Maderyos and Joe Sylva. (See preceding labels.) Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

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.

Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the "bushel-man." Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey Photo by Lewis W. Hine

[Portrait of Roy Eldridge, Spotlite (Club), New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946]

Group of workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver vicinity, Massachusetts

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

Norma Lawrence is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds of cotton a day. Drags the sack which often hold 50 pounds or more before emptied. Lewis W. Hine. See 4569. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma

Richard & Orville Dewey - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, witness.] Location: [New Bedford, Massachusetts].

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.

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girls fruit industry cranberries lifting and carrying croplands massachusetts rochester eldridge bog photographic prints eldridge bog merilda richard conant rochester eldridge library of congress