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South Dakota harvest field view, photochrome print postcard.

South Dakota harvest field view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1898 by Detroit Photographic Co. Emblem in lower left corner: The North Western Line. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53284". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photoc... More

Mr. Rickert in grain field on his farm, Fairbanks Alaska

Mr. Rickert in grain field on his farm, Fairbanks Alaska

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Johnnie Goldberg and father on a Rock Creek farm. Boy worked at Young Island, S.C. one winter. July 7, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Johnnie Goldberg and father on a Rock Creek farm. Boy worked at Young ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 840. "Negative destroyed." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Pri... More

Pole s vyvezennym navozom - Color separation negative, public domain

Pole s vyvezennym navozom - Color separation negative, public domain

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Vid s vodoprovodnoĭ bashni na kamenʹ Pomod. Cherdynʹ

Vid s vodoprovodnoĭ bashni na kamenʹ Pomod. Cherdynʹ

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Carrie Maderyos ready to pick. Said 12 years old - 2nd year picking.  Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

Carrie Maderyos ready to pick. Said 12 years old - 2nd year picking. ...

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Boy of 12 years picking cranberries with the scoop. Most of the scooping is done by adult workers, but some scoops [?] are made small enough for the children to use.  Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusetts.

Boy of 12 years picking cranberries with the scoop. Most of the scoopi...

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Joe Rose. Dumps cranberries for his father. Said he was 11 years old. Lived at Hourwich, Massachusetts. 7 out of 57 workers were 6 to 12 years old. Working from 9 a.m. til 5 p.m. they said.  Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusettsachusetts.

Joe Rose. Dumps cranberries for his father. Said he was 11 years old. ...

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

g. Krasnyĭ. Obshchīĭ vid s i︠u︡ga

g. Krasnyĭ. Obshchīĭ vid s i︠u︡ga

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Ruth. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas

Ruth. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3552. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Ruth. See preceding labels [e.g., #3551].  Location: Bells, Texas.

Ruth. See preceding labels [e.g., #3551]. Location: Bells, Texas.

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Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton, helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children in this orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...

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[Part of Walker family pulling and piling beets. See label 4018.]  Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / [Photo by Hine, Oct. 1915]

[Part of Walker family pulling and piling beets. See label 4018.] Loc...

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A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, leaving the final pull to be exerted by the workers. Hine. Oct. 1915.  Location: Colorado.

A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, lea...

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

Hayward and Harry Bentley suckering the tobacco.  Location: Hebbardsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Hayward and Harry Bentley suckering the tobacco. Location: Hebbardsvi...

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

A typical farm home. Tobacco and corn surrounding the house. Location: Warren County--Plano vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

A typical farm home. Tobacco and corn surrounding the house. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4452. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

12-year old boy carrying heavy crate of tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. He has been earning $1.25 a day steady all Summer. Location: Cabool, Missouri Lewis W. Hine

12-year old boy carrying heavy crate of tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4547. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn.  Location: Warren County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren Co...

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

[Picking strawberries on Collets farm.]  Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Collets farm.] Location: [Bowling Green vici...

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One of the Oliphant boys cutting tobacco. See 4507 and 4508.  Location: Warren County--Bowling Green, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

One of the Oliphant boys cutting tobacco. See 4507 and 4508. Location...

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

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. Bush is also topping.  Location: Clark Co.--Winchester, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers....

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

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No school yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.  Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Ro...

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

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.

Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers....

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

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...

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

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Road with field on right

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Road with field on right

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

[Electrical lines and/or power station separating croplands from buildings, in China]

[Electrical lines and/or power station separating croplands from build...

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to "bushel man." Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E.F. Brown. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1149. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 3015. Location: Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4037. The words "amount" and "work" are underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor C... More

Some of the padrones on Whites Bog, Browns Hills [i.e., Mills], N.J. The chief padrone (in straw hat) is Gus Denato (see report of E.F. Brown). Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Some of the padrones on Whites Bog, Browns Hills [i.e., Mills], N.J. T...

A group of men standing next to each other in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dolina r. Iseti u sela Kolchedanskago

Dolina r. Iseti u sela Kolchedanskago

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Benji Iguchi driving tractor in field, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Benji Iguchi driving tractor in field, Manzanar Relocation Center / ph...

A tractor pulls a plow through a field, mountains in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-X-1. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of... More

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sbor khlopka v Begavati︠e︡. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

Sbor khlopka v Begavati︠e︡. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

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Jennie Capparomie, 708 S. Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 5 years old. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Jennie Capparomie, 708 S. Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 5 years old. Wh...

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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now.  Location: Corunna, Michigan / L.W. Hine.

Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 y...

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

Benji Iguchi driving tractor, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Benji Iguchi driving tractor, Manzanar Relocation Center, California /...

A tractor pulls a plow through a field, mountains in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-16. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of:... More

H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady Nook School later.  Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be i...

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g. Drissa. Obshchīĭ vid s si︠e︡v.-vostoka

g. Drissa. Obshchīĭ vid s si︠e︡v.-vostoka

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[The ruins of the great wall] / Abdullah Frères.

[The ruins of the great wall] / Abdullah Frères.

Crops growing at the base of remains of the Istanbul city walls. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 31. No. 288. In album: City walls and other views, Istanbul, Ot... More

[American Colony member Josef Larsson, standing in field on Mount Scopus, holding scythe, Jerusalem]

[American Colony member Josef Larsson, standing in field on Mount Scop...

(Source: The Dream of Jerusalem, Mia Grondahl, p. 83.) In album: American Colony in Jerusalem members and trips, [p. 38, left] Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting (Library of Congress).

Muganʹ. Uchastok khlopka, istreblennyĭ sarancheĭ. Pos. Grafovka

Muganʹ. Uchastok khlopka, istreblennyĭ sarancheĭ. Pos. Grafovka

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Muganʹ. Khoroshīĭ khlopok, no v t︠s︡entr. chasti vidny pustyi︠a︡ mi︠e︡sta ot solont︠s︡a. Nikolaevka

Muganʹ. Khoroshīĭ khlopok, no v t︠s︡entr. chasti vidny pustyi︠a︡ mi︠e︡...

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Harvest time in N. China - farmer bringing the kao llang home by mule cart

Harvest time in N. China - farmer bringing the kao llang home by mule ...

Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Patented April 14, 1903. Other Patents Pending. No. 4483.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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

Boy who carries barrels. Robert Saunders, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit - is the sone [i.e., son] of the boss. Mother picks too.  Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts.

Boy who carries barrels. Robert Saunders, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit ...

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

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day.  Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner....

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Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, working on farm near Chilton. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915.  Location: Chilton [vicinity], Wisconsin.

Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, work...

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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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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

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...

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

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.]  Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma].

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, ...

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

Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag that holds 50 pounds and more before it is emptied. Norma is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds a day. Drags the sack which often holds 50 pounds or more before emptied. Randall is 9 years old; has picked over 100 pounds a day--usually less. He does not carry quite so large a sackful as his sisters.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prai...

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

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 2, Henderson Co. when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-years old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-years old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-years old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco.  Location: Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

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Group of pickers on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Group of pickers on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: Gildersleeve,...

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

Kastvan family, beet workers near Corunna, hoeing beets. They are Hungarians who came to Mich. last Spring with a trainload of immigrants (several hundred of them) from New York City. Now they are scattered thro[ugh] the country. Many will stay.  Location: Corunna, Michigan / L.W. Hine.

Kastvan family, beet workers near Corunna, hoeing beets. They are Hung...

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

Farming scenes. Tobacco farm II

Farming scenes. Tobacco farm II

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West Stayton (vicinity) Marion County, Ore. Migratory bean pickers. Beanfield, showing irrigation

West Stayton (vicinity) Marion County, Ore. Migratory bean pickers. Be...

Photograph shows field of pole beans with water running between rows. LC-USF34-20535-E. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Novyĭ Aḟon monastyrʹ. Obshchīĭ vid, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Novyĭ Aḟon monastyrʹ. Obshchīĭ vid, color sep...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire,... More

Dzhugara. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ - Public domain scan / photograph

Dzhugara. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ - Public domain scan / photograph

Man standing in field, posed, with crops. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been pic...

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Vid na r. Kolvu i na r. Visheru. Cherdynʹ

Vid na r. Kolvu i na r. Visheru. Cherdynʹ

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Alphonse Londry. Said 7 years old. Lives 337 Flint Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Working on T.B. Smart Bog.  Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusettsachusetts.

Alphonse Londry. Said 7 years old. Lives 337 Flint Street, Fall River,...

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

T︠S︡vi︠e︡t khlopka. [Muganʹskai︠a︡ stepʹ]

T︠S︡vi︠e︡t khlopka. [Muganʹskai︠a︡ stepʹ]

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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear # 2. Whole family works. Jo is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, Cannon, Del., May 28th 1910, before school closed. See photos #1582, #1586, and labels. This is the fourth week of school and the mother said they would be here for 15 or 20 days more. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear # 2. Whole family works. Jo is 3...

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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear # 2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old, Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, Cannon, Del, May 28th, 1910, before school closed. See photos #1582, and #1586 and labels. This is the fourth week of school and the mother said they would be here for 15 or 20 days more. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N. J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear # 2. Whole family works. Jo. Is ...

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8 and 10 year old children of Walker family pulling and pilling beets. See 4018.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

8 and 10 year old children of Walker family pulling and pilling beets....

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Mike Peoki, 707 South 7th St., Philadelphia. Didn't know age. Mother said 9 years. White's Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Mike Peoki, 707 South 7th St., Philadelphia. Didn't know age. Mother s...

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

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 30/15.  Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The f...

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Selo Vidogoshchi v 37 v. ot Tveri

Selo Vidogoshchi v 37 v. ot Tveri

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The Capitol--Washington, D. C.--West front from the City Hall / T.D. ; sketched and drawn by T. Doughty ; from Childs & Inman's Lith Press.

The Capitol--Washington, D. C.--West front from the City Hall / T.D. ;...

Grain(?) field and houses in foreground and the Capitol in background.

Jennie Capparomie, 708 S. Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 5 years old. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Jennie Capparomie, 708 S. Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 5 years old. Wh...

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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.

Pakhatnoe pole, [okolo Kannesemgi?]

Pakhatnoe pole, [okolo Kannesemgi?]

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Richard Tevor, 73 Jones St., W.[?] Maniyunk (near Philadelphia) 8 years old. 5 years picking cranberries. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two more Sept. 27, 1910. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey. / Photo by [...]

Richard Tevor, 73 Jones St., W.[?] Maniyunk (near Philadelphia) 8 year...

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Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." See 4560. Lewis W. Hine, photo.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma.

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said:...

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Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to "bushel man." Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E. F. Brown,.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) ...

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Sartskīi︠a︡ poli︠a︡. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

Sartskīi︠a︡ poli︠a︡. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public dom...

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[Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

[Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

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View of the berry fields near Baltimore, Md. Many girls and boys, old and young, working here with the negroes who are often not good associates.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

View of the berry fields near Baltimore, Md. Many girls and boys, old ...

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Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bot[t]omley farm, near Baltimore, Md. They have worked here 3 years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. All work except the very smallest. She hangs around the fields. Begin work about 4 A.M. and sometimes works until sunset. (See #838.)  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bot[t]omley farm, near Baltimore, M...

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Vid na r. Kolvu i na r. Visheru. Cherdynʹ

Vid na r. Kolvu i na r. Visheru. Cherdynʹ

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The Marnielli family. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown,.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

The Marnielli family. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J....

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Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries 4 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries 4...

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Pete, the Padrone, and family and neighbors. Girl tending baby in sun. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown,.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Pete, the Padrone, and family and neighbors. Girl tending baby in sun....

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Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also.  Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one ...

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Bessie Gonsalve, Said she was 11. Picking and carrying cranberries. Lives in Harwich, Massachusetts. Expects to be here for several weeks more.  Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusettsachusetts.

Bessie Gonsalve, Said she was 11. Picking and carrying cranberries. Li...

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Borisogli︠e︡bskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ. Suzdalʹ

Borisogli︠e︡bskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ. Suzdalʹ

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(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a great deal of physical strain in this work. See Hine report. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine., Oct. 2215

(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a g...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4011. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

[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...

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(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a great deal of physical strain in this work. See Hine report.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a g...

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[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 30/15].  Location: [Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine.

[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The ...

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Orval Riggins. See card and report. L.W. Hine.  Location: Elizabethtown [vicinity], Kentucky.

Orval Riggins. See card and report. L.W. Hine. Location: Elizabethtow...

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Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton.  Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old...

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11-year old girl picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill.  Location: Cabool, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

11-year old girl picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. Location: Cab...

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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-years old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco.  Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

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[Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag that holds 50 pounds and more before it is emptied. Norma is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds a day. Drags the sack which often holds 50 pounds or more before emptied. Randall is 9 years old; has picked over 100 pounds a day--usually less. He does not carry quite so large a sackful as his sisters.]  Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma]. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Pra...

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Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren Cou...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4524. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.]  Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

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[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.]   Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-year old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco.  Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

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