![The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camped near Ft. Collins, Colo. Street family. The children 7- 8- 10- and 12 work steadily and I saw the tiny girl pulling beets after sunset on the following Sunday, and they had not yet finished. The father told me "We got squeezed out of the mountains," one of the neighbors said they has been chased out because they wouldn't send their children to school. Living on the edge of Ft. Collins, they boldly work the children and violate school law. Came from Log Cabin, Colo. Location: Fort Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvdGhlLXByYWlyaWUtd2Fnb24taG9tZS1vZi1hLWZhbWlseS1vZi1pdGluZXJhbnQtYmVldC13b3JrZXJzLW5vdy1jYW1wZWQtbmVhci0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/320/216/jpg "The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camped near Ft. Collins, Colo. Street family. The children 7- 8- 10- and 12 work steadily and I saw the tiny girl pulling beets after sunset on the following Sunday, and they had not yet finished. The father told me \"We got squeezed out of the mountains,\" one of the neighbors said they has been chased out because they wouldn't send their children to school. Living on the edge of Ft. Collins, they boldly work the children and violate school law. Came from Log Cabin, Colo. Location: Fort Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.")
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![Two families were represented here, topping beets on farm near Ft. Collins, Colo. Out of 12 workers, 7 were children, aged 7- 8- 9- 11- 12- 13- 14- years. This is an exceptional group. Although there are thousands of children under 14 yrs. in this state working beets, yet the actual percentage of the total number of beet workers is small -- many farms work no children and many have only one or two. If children under 14 yrs. were eliminated from this work during school session, their places would be filled easily by older ones, and the economic loss felt very little in most cases. See Hine Report for actual counts of adults and children in the various beet districts of Colo. Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvdHdvLWZhbWlsaWVzLXdlcmUtcmVwcmVzZW50ZWQtaGVyZS10b3BwaW5nLWJlZXRzLW9uLWZhcm0tbmVhci1mdC1jb2xsaW5zLWNvbG8tMS02NDAuanBn/40/28/webp "Two families were represented here, topping beets on farm near Ft. Collins, Colo. Out of 12 workers, 7 were children, aged 7- 8- 9- 11- 12- 13- 14- years. This is an exceptional group. Although there are thousands of children under 14 yrs. in this state working beets, yet the actual percentage of the total number of beet workers is small -- many farms work no children and many have only one or two. If children under 14 yrs. were eliminated from this work during school session, their places would be filled easily by older ones, and the economic loss felt very little in most cases. See Hine Report for actual counts of adults and children in the various beet districts of Colo. Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.")
![[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].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvdGhyZWUtYWR1bHRzLWFuZC1zaXgtY2hpbGRyZW4tZnJvbS1zZXZlbi15ZWFycy10by10d2VsdmUteWVhcnMtaGFyZC1hdC13b3JrLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[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].")
![Two families were represented here, topping beets on farm near Ft. Collins, Colo. Out of 12 workers, 7 were children, aged 7- 8- 9- 11- 12- 13- 14- years. This is an exceptional group. Although there are thousands of children under 14 yrs. in this state working beets, yet the actual percentage of the total number of beet workers is small -- many farms work no children and many have only one or two. If children under 14 yrs. were eliminated from this work during school session, their places would be filled easily by older ones, and the economic loss felt very little in most cases. See Hine Report for actual counts of adults and children in the various beet districts of Colo. Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvdHdvLWZhbWlsaWVzLXdlcmUtcmVwcmVzZW50ZWQtaGVyZS10b3BwaW5nLWJlZXRzLW9uLWZhcm0tbmVhci1mdC1jb2xsaW5zLWNvbG8tNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "Two families were represented here, topping beets on farm near Ft. Collins, Colo. Out of 12 workers, 7 were children, aged 7- 8- 9- 11- 12- 13- 14- years. This is an exceptional group. Although there are thousands of children under 14 yrs. in this state working beets, yet the actual percentage of the total number of beet workers is small -- many farms work no children and many have only one or two. If children under 14 yrs. were eliminated from this work during school session, their places would be filled easily by older ones, and the economic loss felt very little in most cases. See Hine Report for actual counts of adults and children in the various beet districts of Colo. Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.")
![[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: [Fort Collins, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvdmlld3Mtb2YtdGhlLWp1bmdsZS1pbi1mdC1jb2xsaW5zLXRoZS1zZWN0aW9uLWluLXdoaWNoLXRoZS1iZWV0LXdvcmtlcnMtbGl2ZS0yLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "[Views of \"The Jungle,\" in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called \"The Pansy Bed\" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called \"Petersburg.\" Location: [Fort Collins, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15]")
The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camped near Ft. Collins, Colo. Street family. The children 7- 8- 10- and 12 work steadily and I saw the tiny girl pulling beets after sunset on the following Sunday, and they had not yet finished. The father told me "We got squeezed out of the mountains," one of the neighbors said they has been chased out because they wouldn't send their children to school. Living on the edge of Ft. Collins, they boldly work the children and violate school law. Came from Log Cabin, Colo. Location: Fort Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.
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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1915
Contributors
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Location
Fort Collins (Colo.), 40.58528, -105.08444
Source
Library of Congress
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