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[Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915.]]. Location: [Sugar City, Colorado].
A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph
Demonstration of the method of cutting and planting seed potatoes as practiced on the Levesque farm near Van Buren, Maine
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"Topping." This shows the beginning and the finish of the topping stroke. - the girl, #1, - the boy, #2. Reiber family, two adults & two children work, two babies at home in the shack. Father expects to clear $350. Began in May. Will finish in mid Nov., "Then we'll go off on a ranch and the children can go to school." Farm near Sterling, Oct. 23/15. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.
"Topping." This shows the beginning and the finish of the topping stroke. - the girl, #1, - the boy, #2. Reiber family, two adults & two children work, two babies at home in the shack. Father expects to clear $350. Began in May. Will finish in mid Nov., "Then we'll go off on a ranch and the children can go to school." Farm near Sterling, Oct. 23/15. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.
"Topping." This shows the beginning and the finish of the topping stroke. - the girl, #1, - the boy, #2. Reiber family, two adults & two children work, two babies at home in the shack. Father expects to clear $350. Began in May. Will finish in mid Nov., "Then we'll go off on a ranch and the children can go to school." Farm near Sterling, Oct. 2315. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado
Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go to Pretty Run School, Division 2, Clark Co., Ky., but Roland and Bush, 14 years old have not started yet--about 3 weeks after it opened. Father rents this farm of 160 acres. Location: Clark Co.--Winchester, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine
The Dickerson Family, Dependent Parents. Father (not in photo) works in a machine shop. All except mother and two babes work in the cotton mill, Winona. Mother said, "Father earns good pay. The children all together earn twelve to fourteen dollars a week. Been here two years. Came from the farm, but we couldn't get the children back onto the farm now. They like the mill work." Home was bare and poorly kept. Queries:- Where does the money go? Where is the need for the little ones working?. Location: Winona, Mississippi
The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father works in the spool room . Mother and 3 children at home. Father said Eddie is a hard worker. The mother told me later when I had to see the family record "The bible's here but the record, hits done got torn up." She said the boys were 12 and 13 years old. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina
"Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Ph[o]enix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.
Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas
Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three girls (in front) work in the mill. This boy and others work up town. Came from an Alabama farm six months ago. Smallest spinner runs two sides. "Father just putters around. Don't work steady." "We all like the mill work better'n the hot sun on farm." House barren and run down. Location: West Point, Mississippi.
"Topping." This shows the beginning and the finish of the topping stroke. - the girl, #1, - the boy, #2. Reiber family, two adults & two children work, two babies at home in the shack. Father expects to clear $350. Began in May. Will finish in mid Nov., "Then we'll go off on a ranch and the children can go to school." Farm near Sterling, Oct. 2315. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado
Summary
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Agriculture.
Hine no. 4026.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: loc.gov
Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
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.