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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now. Location: Corunna, Michigan / L.W. Hine.

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Slovaks blocking and thinning beets near Corunna. Location: Corunna, Michigan L.W. Hine

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Scavenger. Location: Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Cora Housle, southeast of Merna, Custer County, Nebraska, near Table, Nebraska.

Drawer-in. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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Spooler tenders - 16 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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Slovaks blocking and thinning beets near Corunna. Location: Corunna, Michigan / L.W. Hine.

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01/01/1917
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Corunna (Mich.) ,  42.98194, -84.11778
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Every one of these was working in the cotton mill at North Pormal [i.e., Pownal], Vt. and they were running a small force. Rosie Lapiare, 15 years; Jane Sylvester, 15 years; Runie[?] Cird, 12 years; R. Sylvester, 12 years; E. [H.?] Willett, 13 years; Nat. Sylvester, 13 years; John King, 14 years; Z. Lapear, 13 years. Standing on step. Clarence Noel 11 years old, David Noel 14 years old. Location: No[rth] Pownal, Vermont / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

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

Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

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.

Ben Shemen, Sept. 12, 1935 - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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.

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

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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady Nook School later. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

"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

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