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[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

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

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...

A couple of men standing in a field of flowers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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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[Man in frontyard of house], Fairbanks Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[Man in frontyard of house], Fairbanks Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter col...

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

Khlopkovoe pole v imi︠e︡nīi Velikago Kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ Nikolai︠a︡ Konstantinovicha. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ
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 ...

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[This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore, Md., was working hard. They begin about 4:30 A.M. and sometimes work until sunset. Her family (Scholtz) has been South--Bluffton, S.C.--for a few years. Seen in Appalachicola and Biloxi. They are Polish.]  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

[This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore...

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Teresa Lamelli, 818 Kate St., 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.

Teresa Lamelli, 818 Kate St., Philadelphia, 5 years old. Whites Bog, B...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2507. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2540. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, generally picks 8 or 10. Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts

Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, gene...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2505. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Two little pickers. Manuel Alvez - 12 years, Marion Alvez, 8 years. She picks 19 measures. He picks 10 measures. Live 320 Water St., New Bedford, Massachusetts.  Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Two little pickers. Manuel Alvez - 12 years, Marion Alvez, 8 years. Sh...

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Walter Silva. Said 10 years old. Picks 3 or 4 pails a day.  Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Walter Silva. Said 10 years old. Picks 3 or 4 pails a day. Location: ...

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Another Benkendorfer farm near West. Owned by father and well kept up. Mandy, six years old, picks twenty-five pounds a day. Sophie, nine years old picks ninety pounds a day. Seven in family. Frugal Bohemians. Contrast these owned farms with those of the renters. It is estimated that over half of the farms around here are rented.  Location: West, Texas.

Another Benkendorfer farm near West. Owned by father and well kept up....

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

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

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

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

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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children--most of them 8 to 15 years old. "When school opens next month you bet we have to quit workin'" they said. Usually earn 50 cents to $1.50 a day.  Location: Cabool, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hil...

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

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

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

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

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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...

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Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawnee. Children go to Pioneer School, 7 miles northwest of Shawnee (see photo of same) Father said: "Both the girls can hoe the cotton as well as any grown-up." Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.  Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawne...

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6-year old Jewel Walker. See 4564 and 4565.  Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

6-year old Jewel Walker. See 4564 and 4565. Location: Comanche County...

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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 500...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4131. Hine no. 4137. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2520. Copy neg includes #4519. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress,... 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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Novyĭ Aḟon [monastyrʹ]. Obshchīĭ vid

Novyĭ Aḟon [monastyrʹ]. Obshchīĭ vid

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Muganʹ. Sli︠e︡va khoroshīĭ khlopok. Sprava ego ni︠e︡t. Ta i drugai︠a︡ storony unavozheny, no solonet︠s︡ guli︠a︡et, ibo v proshlom godu bylo obratno. [Nikolaevka]

Muganʹ. Sli︠e︡va khoroshīĭ khlopok. Sprava ego ni︠e︡t. Ta i drugai︠a︡ ...

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Muganʹ. Solonet︠s︡. Khlopok zhidok i plokh. Vdali sokhnet i ego ni︠e︡t. [Nikolaevka]

Muganʹ. Solonet︠s︡. Khlopok zhidok i plokh. Vdali sokhnet i ego ni︠e︡t...

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Name: George Sajdak, a Polish boy who picks berries on a Rock Creek farm, near Baltimore, Md.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Name: George Sajdak, a Polish boy who picks berries on a Rock Creek fa...

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General view of White's Bog.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

General view of White's Bog. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

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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 ...

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

Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger children at home. The boys pick 18-20 pails a day.  Location: Falmouth - Week's Bog, Massachusetts.

Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger childre...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3607. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The fou...

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Raker on a Wisconsin cranberry marsh. With a swinging motion the prongs of the rake are thrust under the lowest layer of berries, and with the left hand, the rake is pulled forward and up, completing the arc. Each raker empties his berries into a box behind him. When full these are carried off by porters. Location: Grand Rapids, Wisconsin. / Photo by courtesy of Mr. Andrew Searles the owner.

Raker on a Wisconsin cranberry marsh. With a swinging motion the prong...

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Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent to the home shown in 3950. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Benton Hill, a renter, Tinney, Okla. Two other families were helping Mr. Hill and his children pick his cotton. Four adults and 10 children of following ages: 1 boy of 3 years, 2 boys and 1 girl of 5 years, 1 boy and 1 girl of 7 years, 1 boy of 8, 1 boy of 9 years, 1 girl of 11 years and 1 boy of 15 years. Everyone had a sack and was picking industriously. The parents said that Fred, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds a day and Vera, 5 years old, picks 25 pounds a day. See photos of Fred and Vera.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Benton Hill, a renter, Tinney, Okla. Two other families were helping M...

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[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres now. "We move about a good deal" mother said.]  Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma] / Lewis W. Hine.

[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old ...

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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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[Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. Expects to start school soon. Said: "I'd ruther go to school and then I wouldn't have ter work." Father said she and her sister begin about 6 A.M. and work until 6 or 7 P.M. with 1 1/2 hours off at noon. Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift Report.]  Location: Potawotamie, Oklahoma.

[Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. E...

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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children--most of them 8 to 15 years old. "When school opens next month you bet we have to quit workin'" they said. Usually earn 50 cents to $1.50 a day. Location: Cabool, Missouri Lewis W. Hine

General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hil...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4543. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

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

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

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

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Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska

Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Distant view of house in field with tree in foreground

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Distant view of house in field with tr...

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Farming scenes. Field of stacked corn II

Farming scenes. Field of stacked corn II

Old negative number: 175-3. 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 191... More

Canadian scenes. Red pines, showing transplants at third year

Canadian scenes. Red pines, showing transplants at third year

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Muganʹ. Solonet︠s︡. Khlopok zhidok i plokh. Vdali sokhnet i ego ni︠e︡t. Nikolaevka, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Muganʹ. Solonet︠s︡. Khlopok zhidok i plokh. V...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Muganʹ. Sli︠e︡va khoroshīĭ khlopok. Sprava ego ni︠e︡t. Ta i drugai︠a︡ storony unavozheny, no solonet︠s︡ guli︠a︡et, ibo v proshlom godu bylo obratno. Nikolaevka, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Muganʹ. Sli︠e︡va khoroshīĭ khlopok. Sprava eg...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or M...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester vicinity Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2539. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Arthur Fernande or Fernando? Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a scoop. Said they worked from 9 till 5. Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusetts

Arthur Fernande or Fernando? Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2510. UMBC records name as "Fernande." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of C... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3618. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Yuba City, California. Aerial view of the Farm Security Administration camp for migratory workers

Yuba City, California. Aerial view of the Farm Security Administration...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Osenʹ. Ėti︠u︡d u der. Gorki. Borodino

Osenʹ. Ėti︠u︡d u der. Gorki. Borodino

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Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

R12448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom. Created by "A.S. Seer's Union Square Print., N.Y.; copyrighted by A. S. Seer, May 1886." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

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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Johnnie Yellow, a young Polish berry picker on Bottomley farm, Rock Creek, near Baltimore, Md. Says he is 10 years old and has gone to Biloxi, Miss. for 9 years (with family) and has worked there in winter and here in summer for three years. He is stunted, being only about 39 inches high. Ma[n]y of these children are stunted.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Johnnie Yellow, a young Polish berry picker on Bottomley farm, Rock Cr...

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Guayule Field, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Guayule Field, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Six men standing in a field, mountains in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-15-B. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzana... More

Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summers. Minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time. Whites 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.

Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summ...

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General view of Forsythe's Bog, with Padrone. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

General view of Forsythe's Bog, with Padrone. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness,...

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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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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 "A...

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