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Industrial School boys in a beet field.

Industrial School boys in a beet field.

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Industrial School boys in beet field, Kearney, Nebraska.

Industrial School boys in beet field, Kearney, Nebraska.

summary: Subject: The beet fields of the reform school, called the State Industrial School, which was located in Kearney, Nebraska. For additional photos, see Item numbers 747, 749, 750, and 751.

5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over. 53 attended before the work opened up. School began Sept. 6, over 7 weeks ago. Runs for 9 mos. It is a beautiful two-room school, well equipped. Knearl school, Brush, Colorado, Morgan Co[unty] Location: Brush, Colorado / Photo by Hine. Oct 27/15.

5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over...

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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.  Location: Sugar City, Colorado.

Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight...

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Father of beet worker family resting after a day's work. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Father of beet worker family resting after a day's work. East Grand Fo...

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A black and white photo of three men in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of three men in a field, Minnesota. Farm Secur...

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Interior of Mexican sugar beet worker's home. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Interior of Mexican sugar beet worker's home. East Grand Forks, Minnes...

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A group of people standing in front of a building, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of people standing in front of a building, Minnesota. Farm Sec...

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Quarters for housing beet workers during the summer near Chaska, Minnesota

Quarters for housing beet workers during the summer near Chaska, Minne...

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Sugar beet workers' housing. Colorado

Sugar beet workers' housing. Colorado

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Young sugar beet worker, Treasure County, Montana

Young sugar beet worker, Treasure County, Montana

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A black and white photo of a boy and his dog. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a boy and his dog. Great Depression FSA pho...

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Farmer on a sugar beet cultivator. Box Elder County, Utah

Farmer on a sugar beet cultivator. Box Elder County, Utah

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Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. In the clinic at the camp which now houses Japanese-American farm workers. Medical care is provided by the sugar beet companies

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and returned to town. The school is very well equipped and well kept, with a capable man teacher, good playground apparatus, etc. Location: Brush, Colorado / Photo by Hine.

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a pos...

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[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...

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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...

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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...

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34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks after school opened, out of a possible 200 that will be here when the beet work is over. They will overflow, this year, into a special school being prepared for them. Mrs. Bell, the Principal here has taught these beet children for years and has watched the effect of the work. She vigorously denounces it. (See Hine Report) Photo Oct. 26/15.  Location: Ft. Morgan, Colorado.

34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks...

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Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of f...

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Home of sugar beet worker near Chaska, Minnesota

Home of sugar beet worker near Chaska, Minnesota

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Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers colony at Hudson, Colorado. The housewife says, "The man told me it would save its cost in food, but the roof leaks so bad it's getting all rusted up" (Notice hole in adobe wall above stove; this stove cost the earnings of about three months' work of all the workers in this family)

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great West...

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The mother said "I keep her dressed nice every day, because she is the only girl I've got." Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers' colony at Hudson, Colorado

The mother said "I keep her dressed nice every day, because she is the...

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A girl of six who has full charge of her boy brother. Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers' colony at Hudson, Colorado. It is due to the fact that her mother "works outside somewhere"

A girl of six who has full charge of her boy brother. Great Western Su...

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Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two d...

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Women workers in sugar beet field. Adams County, Colorado

Women workers in sugar beet field. Adams County, Colorado

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Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino...

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Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two d...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting in the back of a truck. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A black and white photo of a man sitting in the back of a truck. War P...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sugar beet companies who sponsored the Japanese-Americans who moved to the camp send trucks one night a week to take them into town for a few hours in a supervised group

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sug...

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Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... 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...

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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

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G.A. Spade beet field in Dawson County, Nebraska.

G.A. Spade beet field in Dawson County, Nebraska.

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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].

[Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen ye...

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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.

This is the Day Nursery in the beet fields. Babies have to amuse thems...

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[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.]  Location: [Sugar City, Colorado].

[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eigh...

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Jo Wohn, ten-year-old topper in beet field near Sterling, Colorado. He works from 6 A.M. to 6:30 P.M., with about half an hour for lunch. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 22/15.

Jo Wohn, ten-year-old topper in beet field near Sterling, Colorado. He...

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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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Worker at beet unloading machine, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Worker at beet unloading machine, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Control and sampling tower of beet unloading machine, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Control and sampling tower of beet unloading machine, East Grand Forks...

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Part of Mexican beet worker's family. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Part of Mexican beet worker's family. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Beet worker and small child in field near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Beet worker and small child in field near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Great Depressio...

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Sugar beet workers, Treasure County, Montana

Sugar beet workers, Treasure County, Montana

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Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

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Abode houses for sugar beet workers. Hysham, Montana

Abode houses for sugar beet workers. Hysham, Montana

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative sugar beet cultivator in action. Box Elder County, Utah

FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative sugar beet cultivator i...

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Mexican sugar beet workers, Saginaw Farms, Michigan

Mexican sugar beet workers, Saginaw Farms, Michigan

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Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. In the clinic at the camp which now houses Japanese-American farm workers. Medical care is provided by the sugar beet companies

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

Building in Salt Lake City, Utah in which the first beet sugar machinery brought to the United States was installed

Building in Salt Lake City, Utah in which the first beet sugar machine...

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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.

The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camp...

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These eight pupils are all that are attending out of 160 Russian Children that should be in the Lincoln School, Sterling, Colo. As soon as the beet work commenced they dropped out. Photo taken 8 weeks after school opened. Location: Sterling, Colorado / by Lewis W. Hine., Oct 21, 1915.

These eight pupils are all that are attending out of 160 Russian Child...

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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.

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at...

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A group of men standing next to each other in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other in a field, Great Depressio...

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Children of Mexican beet worker. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Children of Mexican beet worker. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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"This chicken house we're standing against is the only house here that doesn't leak. It's so low my pop can fix the roof." Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers' colony at Hudson, Colorado

"This chicken house we're standing against is the only house here that...

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In this single-room house on these two beds sleep the mother, three sisters and the brothers (six altogether). Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers' colony at Hudson, Colorado

In this single-room house on these two beds sleep the mother, three si...

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Union meeting. Sugar beet workers. Colorado

Union meeting. Sugar beet workers. Colorado

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Loading diffusion chamber with sugar beet pulp in factory at Brighton, Colorado

Loading diffusion chamber with sugar beet pulp in factory at Brighton,...

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Limestone used in purification of sugar obtained from beet. Brighton, Colorado

Limestone used in purification of sugar obtained from beet. Brighton, ...

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Workers in sugar beet field. Adams County, Colorado

Workers in sugar beet field. Adams County, Colorado

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Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino...

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Farmer spreading poison grasshopper bait in sugar beet field. Forsyth, Montana

Farmer spreading poison grasshopper bait in sugar beet field. Forsyth,...

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At the sugar beet unloading station a sample of each farmer's load is taken to determine the tare or quantity of soil adhering to the beets. This is deducted from the weight on which payment is based. Adams County, Colorado

At the sugar beet unloading station a sample of each farmer's load is ...

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Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

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Norfolk beet sugar factory. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Norfolk beet sugar factory. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Photograph shows interior of factory with group of men posed on landing and stairs.

[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.]  Location: [Sugar City, Colorado]

[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eigh...

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This is the total attendance (2 pupils) at Sanders School, #30, near Sterling, Logan Co., Colo., October 25, 1915, seven weeks after school opened. The total enrol[l]ment will reach 15 or 17 after beet work is over. Sept, 6, school opened with 12 pupils. Low attendance will continue for several weeks. The teacher, Miss Allison, says that out of 8 months of school, many of the children will get only four months schooling on account of beet work. The 2 pupils are, Harold, a 9 yr. old American boy whose family hires beet-workers, and 6 yr. old Lena, who belongs to an Italian family with 9 children, Padroni. (See 4043).  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

This is the total attendance (2 pupils) at Sanders School, #30, near S...

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Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July, 1915.  Location: Rocky Ford [vicinity], Colorado.

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Co...

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A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Minnesota. Farm...

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Mexican beet workers near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Mexican beet workers near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Mexican beet worker's child near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Mexican beet worker's child near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Beet worker, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Beet worker, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Children of Mexican beet worker. East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Mother is dead and this young girl works in the field and does the housework

Children of Mexican beet worker. East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Mother i...

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Mother and father of beet worker family near Fisher, Minnesota

Mother and father of beet worker family near Fisher, Minnesota

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Sugar beet workers, Treasure County, Montana

Sugar beet workers, Treasure County, Montana

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A black and white photo of people working in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people working in a field, Great Depression...

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Sugar beet field before the harvest. Adams County, Colorado

Sugar beet field before the harvest. Adams County, Colorado

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House, garage and new car of Mexican. Crystal City, Texas. It is common practice for the Mexicans on returning from the beet fields of Minnesota and North Dakota and Colorado to make first payments on cars. Even the more prosperous Mexicans live in these one- and two-room shacks

House, garage and new car of Mexican. Crystal City, Texas. It is commo...

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Mormon farmers, members of FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative beet sugar cultivater. Box Elder County, Utah

Mormon farmers, members of FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperat...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inhabited by Japanese-Americans who volunteered to do farm work. The U.S. Employment Service and the local sugar beet companies made agreements as to wages, working conditions, transportation, recreational facilities and medical care

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inha...

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General interior view Oxnard, [California], factory showing diffusion battery filter presses, carbonation tanks, slicing machines, and beet scales

General interior view Oxnard, [California], factory showing diffusion ...

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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...

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[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]

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet ...

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[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]

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet ...

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Farmers during Great Depression: A woman sitting on a rock in a field.

Farmers during Great Depression: A woman sitting on a rock in a field.

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Mexican sugar beet worker's family near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Mexican sugar beet worker's family near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Loading truck with topped sugar beet, Lincoln County, Nebraska

Loading truck with topped sugar beet, Lincoln County, Nebraska

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Mexicans working in sugar beet fields. Lincoln County, Nebraska

Mexicans working in sugar beet fields. Lincoln County, Nebraska

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Sugar beet worker. Colorado. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Sugar beet worker. Colorado. Great Depression public domain photograph...

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Sugar beet field. Treasure County, Montana

Sugar beet field. Treasure County, Montana

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Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man in a field.

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man in a...

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Loading freight cars for the factory at sugar beet dump. Adams County, Colorado

Loading freight cars for the factory at sugar beet dump. Adams County,...

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August Ehlen, farmer, with sugar beet. Adams County, Colorado

August Ehlen, farmer, with sugar beet. Adams County, Colorado

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Food in England. The Debnams hoe their sugar beet crop at Essex, England. In spite of their age they put in a full day at farm work to supply their country with needed food

Food in England. The Debnams hoe their sugar beet crop at Essex, Engla...

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