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[Agricultural community with tower and with electrical lines spanning croplands in the foreground, in China]

[Agricultural community with tower and with electrical lines spanning ...

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[Agricultural village buildings and croplands, with electrical lines spanning the fields, in China]

[Agricultural village buildings and croplands, with electrical lines s...

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The smallest girl is Josephine Ramie, 10 years old, Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (Near Philadelphia). Padrone stands over them, urging them, urging them and often swearing at and threatening them. 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 weeks more. Witness E.F. Brown. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey

The smallest girl is Josephine Ramie, 10 years old, Maniyunk, Pennsylv...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1107. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Lucy ---- 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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1150. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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:...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4561. Not clear whether "photo" after Hine's name was original to the card or added later by a staff member... More

Rose Oquoto, 6 years old, and Flora Oquoto, 7 years old, live at 837 Kimball St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Picking cranberries at 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 weeks more. Witness E. F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

Rose Oquoto, 6 years old, and Flora Oquoto, 7 years old, live at 837 K...

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Chaĭnyi︠a︡ plantat︠s︡īi︠a︡. [Chakva]

Chaĭnyi︠a︡ plantat︠s︡īi︠a︡. [Chakva]

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Khlopok. Vperedi svi︠e︡tlyĭ i vidny ri︠a︡dy - solont︠s︡ovai︠a︡ pochva. Dalʹshe khoroshai︠a︡ pochva. [Muganʹskai︠a︡ stepʹ]

Khlopok. Vperedi svi︠e︡tlyĭ i vidny ri︠a︡dy - solont︠s︡ovai︠a︡ pochva....

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Dolina r. Iseti u sela Kolchedanskago

Dolina r. Iseti u sela Kolchedanskago

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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,...

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[6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. See 4574.]  Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma]. / Lewis W. Hine.

[6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "...

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Mary _____________, a Polish girl and her mother, picking berries on Bottomley Farm, Rock Creek, near Baltimore, Md. In the winter they go to Dunbar, La., for oyster shucking.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Mary _____________, a Polish girl and her mother, picking berries on B...

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Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in this Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...

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Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in this Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...

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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, Brown 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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Muganʹ. Khlopok v t︠s︡vi︠e︡tu. Bi︠e︡lyĭ - 1-go dni︠a︡, krasnyĭ - 2-go dni︠a︡

Muganʹ. Khlopok v t︠s︡vi︠e︡tu. Bi︠e︡lyĭ - 1-go dni︠a︡, krasnyĭ - 2-go ...

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Vid s vodoprovodnoĭ bashni na kamenʹ Pomod. Cherdynʹ

Vid s vodoprovodnoĭ bashni na kamenʹ Pomod. Cherdynʹ

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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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9 year old picker for the American Sumatra Tobacco Co., (See 4899). Location: Weatogue, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

9 year old picker for the American Sumatra Tobacco Co., (See 4899). Lo...

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Bertha Brandt, 9 years old. Picks berries on a Rock Creek farm near Baltimore, Md. (See my report July 10, 1909.)  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Bertha Brandt, 9 years old. Picks berries on a Rock Creek farm near Ba...

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Farrand Packing Co. A young berry picker on Curran's farm, Rock Creek. This boy, Irvan Stevans, and the other (see 828) were the only whites working with a large number of negroes that day, and bad language was abundant. Says he works from "sunup to sundown" and has been working 3 summers. [On card with captions for both #827 and #828: Norris Lovitt. Been picking for 3 years in berry fields near Baltimore, Md. (See 827 and label). July 8, 1909.]  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Farrand Packing Co. A young berry picker on Curran's farm, Rock Creek....

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A young berry picker on a Rock Creek farm near Baltimore, Md. Location: Baltimore, Maryland

A young berry picker on a Rock Creek farm near Baltimore, Md. Location...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 847. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

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....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1155. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Nick Cechini, 10 years old, been picking for three years, and Joe Cechini, 12 years old, been picking five years. 1147 Deliheigh St., Philadelphia. Wit[ness] E.F. Brown. 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 weeks more.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

Nick Cechini, 10 years old, been picking for three years, and Joe Cech...

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The boy standing is Manuel Baptiste, 605 Acushnet Ave., Fall River, Massachusetts. Said 10 years old. 7 year old Alphonse and 12 year old Alphonse Derosies, of 587 E. End Ave., Fall River, Massachusetts., was working.  Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

The boy standing is Manuel Baptiste, 605 Acushnet Ave., Fall River, Ma...

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Young pickers on Swift's Bog. All working: including baby in foreground. (See names on other label.)  Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

Young pickers on Swift's Bog. All working: including baby in foregroun...

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Even the little tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others picking regularly.  Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Even the little tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others pi...

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Mother and three children - Roderez family, E. Falmouth, Massachusetts. James - 8 years; Manuel 5; Marion, the baby, 4. They pick 28 measures a day. Mother sayd, "We can't pick fast cause the baby is too fussy."  Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mother and three children - Roderez family, E. Falmouth, Massachusetts...

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Bringing in one measure.  Location: Falmouth - Plimmey [?] Bog, Massachusetts.

Bringing in one measure. Location: Falmouth - Plimmey [?] Bog, Massac...

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Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother, and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D.  Location: Denison, Texas.

Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a d...

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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 yea...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3940. Hine no. 3941. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

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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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....

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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...

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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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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...

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Wheat field. Winter wheat. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

Wheat field. Winter wheat. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

The Theodor Horydczak Collection - architecture and social life of Washington DC in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

[Agricultural village buildings and cropland, in China]

[Agricultural village buildings and cropland, in China]

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Khlopok. Vperedi svi︠e︡tlyĭ i vidny ri︠a︡dy - solont︠s︡ovai︠a︡ pochva. Dalʹshe khoroshai︠a︡ pochva. Muganʹskai︠a︡ stepʹ, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Khlopok. Vperedi svi︠e︡tlyĭ i vidny ri︠a︡dy -...

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

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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[Cotton field, probably in Golodnaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

[Cotton field, probably in Golodnaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

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Borisogli︠e︡bskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ. Suzdalʹ

Borisogli︠e︡bskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ. Suzdalʹ

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Sbor chai︠a︡. Gruppa grechanok. Kavkaz. [Chakva]

Sbor chai︠a︡. Gruppa grechanok. Kavkaz. [Chakva]

A black and white photo of a herd of sheep. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia). For this summer she has picked cranberries. This summer is at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and these people will stay here two weeks more. Her look of distress was caused by her father's impatience [?] over her stopping in her tramp to he "bushelman" at our photographer's request. Witness, E.F. Brown, Sept. 27, 1910.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (...

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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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Scene is 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, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

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

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Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister eighteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres near Houston.  Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....

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General view of Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. with Padrone. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

General view of Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. with ...

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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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General View, Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more. E.F. Brown [Witness].  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

General View, Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week o...

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Potatoe, [i.e., Potato] fields, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Potatoe, [i.e., Potato] fields, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograp...

Workers pick potatoes and pack them into crates, mountains in the distance. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-17-A. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Form... More

Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore, Md. "I'm just beginnin'. Picked two boxes yesterday. (2 cents a box). (See my report July 10, 1909.) July 8, 1909.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek nea...

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Sbor khlopka v Begavati︠e︡. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

Sbor khlopka v Begavati︠e︡. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

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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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Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 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." See 4564.  Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of co...

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[The great wall between Topkapı and Yedikule which was breeched in the year 1453] / Abdullah Frères.

[The great wall between Topkapı and Yedikule which was breeched in the...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 24. No. 290. In album: City walls and other views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library o... More

Pea crop near Sitka - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Pea crop near Sitka - Frank G. Carpenter collection

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

Chaĭnyi︠a︡ plantat︠s︡īi. Chakva

Chaĭnyi︠a︡ plantat︠s︡īi. Chakva

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Nature's bounty / from painting by E. Lamasure.

Nature's bounty / from painting by E. Lamasure.

Corn shocks in field. K10520 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Edwin Lamasure. Copyright by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, U.S.A. No. MY7184.

The De Marco family (see photos #1139-#1143, and E.F. Brown's report). 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 De Marco family (see photos #1139-#1143, and E.F. Brown's report)....

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Gora Blagodatʹ, Russian Empire - photo by Prokudin-Gorskii

Gora Blagodatʹ, Russian Empire - photo by Prokudin-Gorskii

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Laura Santos and family, 500 Wichendon Street, Providence. Said 12 years. Picks 20 to 25 measures a day. Is in 4th grade will be here 5 weeks more.  Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

Laura Santos and family, 500 Wichendon Street, Providence. Said 12 yea...

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Pete Le Tendre is the smallest worker. Said 9 years old. Lives 44 Bowler Street, Fall River, Massachusetts.  Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Pete Le Tendre is the smallest worker. Said 9 years old. Lives 44 Bowl...

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Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. Lives 171 Orange Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Also Napoleon Ruel, 53 Hopkins Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Said 9 years old.  Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. ...

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Prokudin Gorskii: Szhatoe pole. Color separation negative

Prokudin Gorskii: Szhatoe pole. Color separation negative

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Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D.  Location: Denison, Texas.

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early...

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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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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mineral Wells School #39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. "We pick a bale in four days." Dovey, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds a day (average) Mother said: "She jess works fer pleasure." Ertle, 6 years, picks 20 pounds a day (average) Vonnnie, 10 years, picks 50 pounds a day (average) Edward, 11 years, picks 75 pounds a day (average) Otis, 12 years, picks 75 pounds a day (average) Expect to be out of school for two weeks more picking. Father is a renter. Works part of farm on shares (gives 1/4 of cotton for rent) and part of farm he pays cash rent.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mine...

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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...

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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...

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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

Fred Hill, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds of cotton a day. See 4580.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Fred Hill, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds of cotton a day. See...

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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

Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100--a large amount. Mostly negro workers this year.  Location: Zion [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of ...

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Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in half a day, according to testimony of father and brother. Father owns farm. Hazel goes to Prairie Lee School.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in h...

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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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Farming scenes. Field of cabbage

Farming scenes. Field of cabbage

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Tobacco field. View of tobacco field with trees in background

Tobacco field. View of tobacco field with trees in background

Titles 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 the 19... More

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Field with gate in foreground

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Field with gate in foreground

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Farm scenes. Wheat field and clouds II

Farm scenes. Wheat field and clouds II

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Tenant houses on cotton plantation. Rolling Fork, Mississippi

Tenant houses on cotton plantation. Rolling Fork, Mississippi

Image is a near duplicate of LC-USF34-053792-D. Original negative missing. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washingto... More

[Aerial view of terraced fields, Sikkim]

[Aerial view of terraced fields, Sikkim]

Photographer's stamp on back of print. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Published in : Mountaint... More

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 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1129. "May 28th 1910" is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... More

Pole s vyvezennym navozom - Color separation negative, public domain

Pole s vyvezennym navozom - Color separation negative, public domain

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Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed ten years old picks three huundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred pounds. Adults pick about five hundred, getting about $1.00 a hundred. Now the father rents his farm.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...

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The Framo 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 Framo Family Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept...

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Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (average) Mother said: "She jess works fer pleasure." See photos 4555 to 4557.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (avera...

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Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field. Attributed to Lakin based on image published in Stereo World, March/April 2012, p. 7 Gift; G.W. Richmond; Nov. 1927 (DLC/PP-1927:47158)

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie" six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven years old, picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy.  Location: Bells, Texas.

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

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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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[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.

Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 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." See 4564.  Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of co...

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Sartskīi︠a︡ poli︠a︡. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

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

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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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