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![Six-year old Jo, pulling beets for his parents on a farm near Sterling, Colo. This is very heavy work for such little ones, but many do it. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvc2l4LXllYXItb2xkLWpvLXB1bGxpbmctYmVldHMtZm9yLWhpcy1wYXJlbnRzLW9uLWEtZmFybS1uZWFyLXN0ZXJsaW5nLWNvbG8tMS02NDAuanBn/40/29/webp "Six-year old Jo, pulling beets for his parents on a farm near Sterling, Colo. This is very heavy work for such little ones, but many do it. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.")
![Six-year old Jo, pulling beets for his parents on a farm near Sterling, Colo. This is very heavy work for such little ones, but many do it. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvc2l4LXllYXItb2xkLWpvLXB1bGxpbmctYmVldHMtZm9yLWhpcy1wYXJlbnRzLW9uLWEtZmFybS1uZWFyLXN0ZXJsaW5nLWNvbG8tNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Six-year old Jo, pulling beets for his parents on a farm near Sterling, Colo. This is very heavy work for such little ones, but many do it. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.")
![[The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, "We have to get done."]. Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine. Oct. 22/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvdGhlLTgtYW5kLTEwLXlyLW9sZC1jaGlsZHJlbi1oZXJlLWFyZS13b3JraW5nLWJlZXRzLW9uLWEtZmFybS1uZWFyLXN0ZXJsaW5nLTItNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, \"We have to get done.\"]. Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine. Oct. 22/15.")
This is the Day Nursery in the beet fields. Babies have to amuse themselves under the direction of those who are too small to work. Ordway, Colorado. Location: Ordway, Colorado.
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Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1915
Contributors
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Location
Ordway (Colo.), 38.21806, -103.75611
Source
Library of Congress
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