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[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky. L.W. Hine

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky. L.W. Hine

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

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01/01/1916
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Bowling Green (Ky.) ,  36.99028, -86.44361
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label_outline Explore Covington Farm, Green Vicinity, Bowling Green Ky

Probably the smallest plane in the world. Built by Edw. F. Allen of Wash, D.C., who was formerly test pilot for Army Air Service during the world war. Plane is equipped with 9 horsepower motorcycle engine and weighs only 205 lbs. with wing spread of 27 ft. Mr. Allen, in cockpit, flies it often and recently attained height of 1800 ft. capable of making 63 mph

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.

Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to "pick, pick." Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

The Mansion, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia

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

Lettuce rotting in the field. Canyon County, Idaho. When the price went low at the end of the season, the lettuce was left in the fields; in some places cattle and sheep were turned in to eat it, and in others it will be plowed under

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives a 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

B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo "tie up waste"; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo but they lose a good deal of schooling for work) are regular strippers. Photo taken during school hours. Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Quarry scenes. No children were employed. Location: Warren County--Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Homer Hunt, 11-year old berry picker. Says he has been out of school half the time for some weeks picking, and has made $10. Gets 10 cents a gallon. They are wild blackberries. The teacher of his school, Maretburg School, says there are many absent from time to time for berries, corn, etc. Location: Rockcastle County--Maretburg, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

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