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Negro dance on a Cuban plantation Coolies and Negroes ; Farm scene near Havana

Negro dance on a Cuban plantation Coolies and Negroes ; Farm scene nea...

Three illustrations show laborers from Africa and China dancing, interacting, and working on a farm in Cuba. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. III, no. 109 (1859 January 29), p. 73.

Water wheel - Public domain scenic drawing

Water wheel - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a 19th century Japanese farm worker pedaling a human-powered waterwheel. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Oct. 1878. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: Dav... More

The plowers - Drawing. Public domain image.

The plowers - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Cane cutters on a Cuban sugar plantation

Cane cutters on a Cuban sugar plantation

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "273" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09220. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915.  Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.  Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous farm. In foreground is Wyatt Pruett, 14 years old. Goes to Pruett School, Div. 3, Henderson, Ky. There are 4 boys working now. Father is in background.  Location: Hebbardsville [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Suckering tobacco on Lowe farm. Lewis W. Hine. See 4485.  Location: Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky.

Suckering tobacco on Lowe farm. Lewis W. Hine. See 4485. Location: Wi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4529. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Joseph Feree, a 14-year-old boy kept out of school for general farm work. See report.  Location: West Point [vicinity], Kentucky / L.W. Hine.

Joseph Feree, a 14-year-old boy kept out of school for general farm wo...

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Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same.  Location: Elizabethtown [vicinity], Kentucky / L.W. Hine.

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card ...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tending the chicks. 16 year old girl. Home of William Olliges, Stithton, Ky. The children go to parochial school in Stithton.  Location: Hardin County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Tending the chicks. 16 year old girl. Home of William Olliges, Stithto...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous farm. In foreground is Wyatt Pruett, 14 years old. Goes to Pruett School, Div. 3, Henderson, Ky. There are 4 boys working now. Father is in background. Location: Hebbardsville vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous f...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4494. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett, 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. owns 35 acres.  Location: Rockcastle County--Mt. Vernon [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Driving boy" taking pigs to market. Says he is 14 years old and has been working with pigs for 9 years. Goes to school in Paris, Ky. Horace Harpe, 320 West 8 Street,.  Location: Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

"Driving boy" taking pigs to market. Says he is 14 years old and has b...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

6:00 A.M. at Post Office Square, Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra Tobacco Farm. S[outh] Windsor. They return about 7 P.M.  Location: Hartford, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

6:00 A.M. at Post Office Square, Truck load of tobacco workers bound f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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Homestead, Fla. Negro tomatoe [sic] pickers resting during lunch hour

Homestead, Fla. Negro tomatoe [sic] pickers resting during lunch hour

Corresponding negative no. LC-USF33-50633-E. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1597.

[Jamaican agricultural laborers standing in a line at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers standing in a line at a Farm Security ...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28697. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Na si︠e︡nokosi︠e︡ okolo privala. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Na si︠e︡nokosi︠e︡ okolo privala. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Farm workers standing near their farm equipment, taking break from haying.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School but it has not opened on account of repairs. Lewis W. Hine. See 4398-9 and 4400.  Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[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.

[The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near S...

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Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work.  Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine.

Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Loc...

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Work that Educates. Twelve-year old boy tending bees under the direction of his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914.  Location: Bennington, Vermont.

Work that Educates. Twelve-year old boy tending bees under the directi...

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[Women reaping in cultivated land near Krasno i arsk]

[Women reaping in cultivated land near Krasno i arsk]

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

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

Farm, farm workers, Mt. Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation ...

Farm workers harvesting crops in field, mountains in the background. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona. Sturges Esqr.] / William S. Mount 1836.

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona....

Print shows workmen resting in the shade of a tree, one man is sharpening a tool, an African American man reclining on a stack of hay, a young boy is leaning over the stack, tickling the man's ear with a piece ... More

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona. Sturges Esqr.] / William S. Mount 1836.

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona....

Print shows workmen resting in the shade of a tree, one man is sharpening a tool, an African American man reclining on a stack of hay, a young boy is leaning over the stack, tickling the man's ear with a piece ... More

[Peasants going to work] / J.F. Millet.

[Peasants going to work] / J.F. Millet.

Print shows a man carrying a hoe and a pitchfork, and a woman carrying a jug, headed for the fields.

Pea pickers, Mount Morris, N.Y.

Pea pickers, Mount Morris, N.Y.

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Planting cane, Island of St. Kitts, B.W.I.

Planting cane, Island of St. Kitts, B.W.I.

H27122 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by B.L. Singley. On mount: Keystone View Company. No. 14464.

Natives shelling corn, Guadalajara, Mexico - stereocsopic card

Natives shelling corn, Guadalajara, Mexico - stereocsopic card

H30099 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cutting cane on a Cuban sugar plantation

Cutting cane on a Cuban sugar plantation

Three people, one of them on horseback, in a sugar cane field. No. 09221. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co.

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing away the grain. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This shows a typical beet-topping knife, with the dangerous hook on the end that is used to pick up the beet. This is the ten-year-old Walker boy, (see label 4018) belonging to a well-to-do family, but kept out of school to work. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 1915.

This shows a typical beet-topping knife, with the dangerous hook on th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, "We all got to do all we can.") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 25/15.

Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when "suckering." See 4400. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm i...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4401. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys say they have been in school some this year.  Location: Clark County--Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of Ed Bentley family, Route 2, Hebbardsville. Father is up the river cutting logs (is home part of the time) and sister is attending the Zion School. Boys expect to go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., in about 2 weeks; have lost 2 weeks already. Hayward is 15 years old and Harry is 11. Father rents the farm and has 6 acres in tobacco. No other help.  Location: Hebbardsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Home of Ed Bentley family, Route 2, Hebbardsville. Father is up the ri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys say they have been in school some this year.  Location: Clark County--Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Willie Fugate cutting tobacco. See 4489.  Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Willie Fugate cutting tobacco. See 4489. Location: Hedges Station, Ke...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lummie Durrett. See report.  Location: Elizabethtown [vicinity], Kentucky / L.W. Hine.

Lummie Durrett. See report. Location: Elizabethtown [vicinity], Kentu...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tobacco. Goes to old Union School near Plano (?). Will start school next week (6 weeks late) He works for Jasper Harper, R. 3, Box 90, Bowling Green. Jasper is 21 years old and has 13 acres in tobacco. Gives half the tobacco for rent. Father is a tenant.  Location: Warren County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tob...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Kalishek family, Bohemian beet-workers.  Location: Corunna, Michigan. / L.W. Hine.

John Kalishek family, Bohemian beet-workers. Location: Corunna, Michi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of shed workers at Wetstone farm, 14 of them were 12 to 14 yrs. old.  Location: Vernon, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Group of shed workers at Wetstone farm, 14 of them were 12 to 14 yrs. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

10 year old leaf boy and three "stringers," 10, 12, and 13 yrs. old. Tobacco shed of American Sumatra Tob. Co. In these two sheds were 41 girls and boys from 10 to 15 yrs., and only 24 girls and women of 16 and over. The leaf-boys get $1.50 a day and some of the stringers of 10 and 12 make $1.20 a day, according to the Supt.  Location: S[outh] Windsor, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

10 year old leaf boy and three "stringers," 10, 12, and 13 yrs. old. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Field-workers, Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. See Report.  Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Field-workers, Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. See Rep...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Photograph shows a woman seated with her children at the entrance to a squatter's shelter. In album: Rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California / compiled by Paul S. Taylor. 1935, [bottom, plate 31].

Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico

Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers A...

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Planting corn. Old driver. Planting corn. House Negro digging corn holes

Planting corn. Old driver. Planting corn. House Negro digging corn hol...

Title transcribed from finding aid. Purchase; e(DLC/PP-1982:145). Exhibited: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and British Empire... More

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life, on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915.  Location: Wisconsin.

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Work that Educates.Twelve-year old boy tending chickens with his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914.  Location: Bennington, Vermont.

Work that Educates.Twelve-year old boy tending chickens with his fathe...

An old photo of a boy playing with a cat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said: "She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in school--5th grade." He owns the farm and expects to build soon.  Location: Hardin County--Sonora [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of the person with lace costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"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 stro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work.  Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine.

Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Loc...

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Work that Educates. Twelve-year old boy tending bees under the direction of his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914.  Location: Bennington, Vermont.

Work that Educates. Twelve-year old boy tending bees under the directi...

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Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013-06-27.

Luis Zapata oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Silve...

Summary: Luis Zapata describes his childhood in Orange County, California, and how he came to join the labor movement as a college student at San Jose State University. He discusses the organizing work he did w... More

Agricultural laborer - Public domain print

Agricultural laborer - Public domain print

Drawing shows a 19th century Japanese farm worker with shoulder pole carrying baskets of produce. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Sep. 1878. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms p... More

Poster - Hi. Holler in Way down East - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Hi. Holler in Way down East - Public domain lithograph

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The haymakers] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[The haymakers] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Juvenile convicts at work in the fields

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0850. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work.]  Location: [Iliff, Colorado] / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915.]  Location: [Colorado]

[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleve...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He is four grades behind, and the teacher says it is on account of the beet work.  Location: Fort Collins, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Seven-year-old Maggie Wohn pulls and piles the beets. See preceding photos.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

Seven-year-old Maggie Wohn pulls and piles the beets. See preceding ph...

Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the family of Jacob Walker, a prosperous beet raiser near Sterling. His 6, 8 & 10 yr. old children are kept out of school and worked, in spite of the fact that he owns 225 acres of land here worth several hundred dollars an acre. Father, mother and seven children work. Walker moved here from Neb[raska] 8 yrs. ago. They work hard and continuously. See also photos 4033-4 and 5. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine Oct. 22/15.

Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family of John H. Children 8, 10, 13, 15 yrs. old pulling and picking beets on farm at Iliff[?] Ten members of the family. They will make about $900 this season but have very heavy expenses so will only clear about $200 or $300.  Location: Iliff, Colorado.

Family of John H. Children 8, 10, 13, 15 yrs. old pulling and picking ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The children go to Parochial School. Location: Hardin County--Stithton, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The chi...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4520. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm.  Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their fa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives a dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or 6. Lives in Bowling Green.  Location: Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Archie Haydon, 12 years old helping his father, John A. Haydon worm tobacco. Father says their school (Cerulean) was not opened until the first Monday in September on account of so many children needed for work.  Location: Trigg County--Cerulean, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Archie Haydon, 12 years old helping his father, John A. Haydon worm to...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from "sun-up to sun-down" worming and suckering, and that they are as steady as grown-ups.  Location: Warren County--Albaton, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from "sun-up to sun-down" worming and suckering, and that they are as steady as grown-ups. Location: Warren County--Albaton, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4540. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

"Driving boy" driving sheep into the sheep pens at Carlisle.  Location: Nicholas County--Carlisle [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

"Driving boy" driving sheep into the sheep pens at Carlisle. Location...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

12 yr. old girl "passing" leaves to stringers, tobacco-shed of Hackett farm. 8/2/17.  Location: Buckland, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

12 yr. old girl "passing" leaves to stringers, tobacco-shed of Hackett...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

[African Americans around small building and wagons loaded with cotton]

[African Americans around small building and wagons loaded with cotton...

J258745 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

11671-25. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among the poles for overhead irrigation, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, N.J.

Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among...

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Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / Sketched by A.R. Waud.

Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / Sketched by A.R...

Main illustration shows African Americans working in a rice field being supervised by a white man; vignettes surrounding the main illustration show a threshing mill, flood gates, a flooded rice field, African A... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Na zhnitvi︠e︡. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Na zhnitvi︠e︡. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, colo...

Family(?) sitting in front of hay stacks in a hay field. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: ... More

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from "sun-up to sun-down" worming and suckering, and that they are as steady as a grown-up.  Location: Warren County--Albaton, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter ...

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A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of beets, working their 9 and 10 yr. old girls hard at piling and topping (altho[ugh] they are not rugged) and they will not return until November. The little girl said, "Piling is hardest, it gets your back. I have cut myself some, topping." The older girl said, "Don't you call us Russians, we're Germans," (although they were most of them were born in Russia). Family been in this country eleven yrs. (See photo 4041.)  Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family...

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Charles Hoffman said he was 13 years old and in the sixth grade. At the plow after school. See report. L.W. Hine.  Location: Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Charles Hoffman said he was 13 years old and in the sixth grade. At th...

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"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life, on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915.  Location: Wisconsin.

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

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Boy 16 and brother 20. Family of A. W. Galloway, Hebbardsville, Route 1. Boys go to Keats (or Bethel) School.  Location: Henderson County--[Hebbardsville], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Boy 16 and brother 20. Family of A. W. Galloway, Hebbardsville, Route ...

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Boy 16 and brother 20. Family of A. W. Galloway, Hebbardsville, Route 1. Boys go to Keats (or Bethel) School.  Location: Henderson County--[Hebbardsville], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Boy 16 and brother 20. Family of A. W. Galloway, Hebbardsville, Route ...

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This man is selling you sour grapes

This man is selling you sour grapes

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[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.]  Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age ...

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Tobacco pickers on Goodrich Farm, "Second picking." The tobacco plants are often much taller than the children, and the air close and humid, especially when they are working on the ground.  Location: Cromwell, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Tobacco pickers on Goodrich Farm, "Second picking." The tobacco plants...

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The mangold harvest / P.H. Emerson.

The mangold harvest / P.H. Emerson.

People harvesting mangolds (a type of beet). Illus. in: Pictures from life in field and fen / by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.) etc. London : George Bell and Sons, pl. 4. Peter Henry Emerson (8 April 1856 ... More

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.]  Location: [Ordway vicinity, Colorado]

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets nea...

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Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915.  Location: Wisconsin.

Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wiscons...

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Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year old sister on a Wisconsin farm near St. John. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: St. John vicinity, Wisconsin

Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3957. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, pulling beets. The overalls are used by many girls and women. They said they begin sometimes at 5 A.M., usually about 6 or 7, and work until 6 P.M. with an hour off at noon. An 8 yr old sister works some. These 4 children, with the father and mother, work a large plot of beets on contract for W.E. Damm, near Sterling Colo. Mr. Damm said this family would make from $800 to $900 this season, with two or three hundred dollars out for expenses Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine. Oct. 2115

Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, pu...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title information from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3999. Hine no. 3998. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Cong... More

Digging potatoes. 14 and 16 years old.  Location: Hardin County--West Point [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Digging potatoes. 14 and 16 years old. Location: Hardin County--West ...

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Harold, Hugh and Herbert (15 years) Oliphant cutting and suckering tobacco.  Location: Warren County--Bowling Green, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Harold, Hugh and Herbert (15 years) Oliphant cutting and suckering tob...

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Cutting tobacco on farm of A.G.W. Gish, Route 3, Henderson. Boys 10, 13 and 15 years will all go to Niagara School, Div. 4, Henderson Co., when it opens next week. New building. The 2 younger boys belong to C.M. Gish. Both Gish families own their farms.  Location: Henderson, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Cutting tobacco on farm of A.G.W. Gish, Route 3, Henderson. Boys 10, 1...

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John Aldridge, 14 years old. Father, Hense Aldridge, R. Route 1, Winchester. Driving horse home. Works on tobacco. Expects to start school in "couple of weeks." It is now several weeks after school opened. Division 2, Clark Co., Ky.  Location: Clark Co.--Winchester, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

John Aldridge, 14 years old. Father, Hense Aldridge, R. Route 1, Winch...

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[Harry Dewitt driving a roller on his father's farm. See report.]  Location: [West Point vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

[Harry Dewitt driving a roller on his father's farm. See report.] Loc...

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