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Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a Colorado farm near Rocky Ford. Her father is German. He said: "I don't work my children until they are older." Another German farmer nearby said the same. Another father said: "Americans don't work their kids the way foreignors i.e., foreigners do." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford vicinity, Colorado
Migrant laborer's children. Mother was thirty-two years old, had had eleven children, two sets of twins, six are now living. She and her husband lost jobs in packinghouse because they cut down in help or closed after the "freeze-out." The older boy said "This little 'uns fell off so since we come here. It was so fat before. It's had colitis so bad. My daddy didn't know we was comin' to the wrong place this time. We've been lots of places. I don't like it here so well but I reckon we'll have to stay a smart while. My daddy had to turn back the car. He'd paid a lot off on it but he didn't git enough work here. Now we can't go nowheres else." Belle Glade, Florida
Alfred tells to an AMERICAN RED CROSS man, his story of how he lived under German rule for three years and at least got to Paris with a party of refugees where they were cared for by a French organization with aid from the AMERICAN RED CROSS at St. Sulpice. Tomorrow he will be taken to Grand Val, a large estate near Paris, where a country home has been established for delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice, Paris. The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children whose condition shows remarkable improvement in the healthy surroundings
Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said: "The children can thin the beets better than grown ups. We all work fourteen hours a day at times because when the beets is ready they has to be done. About twelve weeks is about all the children can work on thinning and topping. Some of them hoe a little. See Hine Report, Colorado Bee[t] Workers, July, 1915. Location: Greeley [vicinity], Colorado.
Small boy works as helper -- backroping in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Charles Chasse, 201 Main Street. When I inquired about him in the home, his mother very reluctantly admitted he was working, but said he is past 14 years of age. I met him on the street and he said he is to be 14 next month, when he hopes to get his "school papers." Said he has been working several months. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire.
[This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore, Md., was working hard. They begin about 4:30 A.M. and sometimes work until sunset. Her family (Scholtz) has been South--Bluffton, S.C.--for a few years. Seen in Appalachicola and Biloxi. They are Polish.] Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
Small boy works as helper -- backroping in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Charles Chasse, 201 Main Street. When I inquired about him in the home, his mother very reluctantly admitted he was working, but said he is past 14 years of age. I met him on the street and he said he is to be 14 next month, when he hopes to get his "school papers." Said he has been working several months. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire
Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, " She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay," but she helps regularly, and says she can run two sides. Worked steadily all the time I was in the mill. There are nine in the family; five in the mill, including the father. "We like the mill work much better than farming," they said. Recently moved in from a small farm 50 miles a way. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.
Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, " She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay," but she helps regularly, and says she can run two sides. Worked steadily all the time I was in the mill. There are nine in the family; five in the mill, including the father. "We like the mill work much better than farming," they said. Recently moved in from a small farm 50 miles a way. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi
Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a Colorado farm near Rocky Ford. Her father is German. He said: "I don't work my children until they are older." Another German farmer nearby said the same. Another father said: "Americans don't work their kids the way foreignors [i.e., foreigners] do." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford [vicinity], Colorado.
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Hine grew up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As a young man he had to care for himself, and working at a furniture factory gave him first-hand knowledge of industrial workers' harsh reality. Eight years later he matriculated at the University of Chicago and met Professor Frank A. Manny, whom he followed to New York to teach at the Ethical Culture School and continue his studies at New York University. As a faculty member at the Ethical Culture School Hine was introduced to photography. From 1904 until his death he documented a series of sites and conditions in the USA and Europe. In 1906 he became a photographer and field worker for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Undercover, disguised among other things as a Bible salesman or photographer for post-cards or industry, Hine went into American factories. His research methodology was based on photographic documentation and interviews. Together with the NCLC he worked to place the working conditions of two million American children onto the political agenda. The NCLC later said that Hine's photographs were decisive in the 1938 passage of federal law governing child labor in the United States. In 1918 Hine left the NCLC for the Red Cross and their work in Europe. After a short period as an employee, he returned to the United States and began as an independent photographer. One of Hine's last major projects was the series Men at Work, published as a book in 1932. It is a homage to the worker that built the country, and it documents such things as the construction of the Empire State Building. In 1940 Hine died abruptly after several years of poor income and few commissions. Even though interest in his work was increasing, it was not until after his death that Hine was raised to the stature of one of the great photographers in the history of the medium.
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