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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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Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near Baltimore. (See label 835). Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near Baltimore. (See label...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 836. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Millie Cornaro, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries for 6 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N. J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain here two weeks more. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Millie Cornaro, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries f...

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

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2566. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3546. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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 year old boy 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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Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job for such a child.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 23/15.

Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job f...

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Jo Wohn, ten-year-old topper in beet field near Sterling, Colorado. He works from 6 A.M. to 6:30 P.M., with about half an hour for lunch. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2215

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4012. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

[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.]  Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma] / [Lewis W. Hine]

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

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Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens.  Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and h...

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[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift Report.]  Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma]

[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day...

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Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens.  Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and h...

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

Picking strawberries on Collets farm. Location: Bowling Green [vicini...

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

13-year old boy picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. Location: Cabo...

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Young pickers (4899).  Location: Weatogue, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Young pickers (4899). Location: Weatogue, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

First picking, (#4881).  Location: [Gildersleeve, Connecticut] / L.W. Hine.

First picking, (#4881). Location: [Gildersleeve, Connecticut] / L.W. ...

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Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. View down road with buildings on both sides

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. View down road with buildings on both ...

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Tobacco field. View up slope covered with tobacco

Tobacco field. View up slope covered with tobacco

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

[People working in vineyard, Hungary] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[People working in vineyard, Hungary] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph of Hungary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[View from a tall building or a portion of the Great Wall of China, looking out across the countryside, showing mixed use of residential, industrial, and agricultural facilities]

[View from a tall building or a portion of the Great Wall of China, lo...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Pole s vyvezennym navozom, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Pole s vyvezennym navozom, color separation n...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, from its source in the... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4558. Copy neg includes #4557. Reproduction no. LC-USZ62-18104. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints ... More

Victoria Talme. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Victoria Talme. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Location: Browns Mills...

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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)

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...

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

Jennie Williams, 1529 Titten St., Philadelphia. 5 years old. First summer. Theodore Budd's Bog, at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more. E.F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

Jennie Williams, 1529 Titten St., Philadelphia. 5 years old. First sum...

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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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Szhatoe pole - Color separation negative, public domain

Szhatoe pole - Color separation negative, public domain

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Jim Waldine, 1023 Carpenter St., Philadelphia. 6 years old, been picking cranberries two years. Also Sam Frohue, 9 years old, been picking two years, could not spell his own name. 1106 Titten St., Philadelphia. 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. E.F. Brown Wit[ness].  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

Jim Waldine, 1023 Carpenter St., Philadelphia. 6 years old, been picki...

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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...

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

Sbor chai︠a︡. Gruppa grechanok. Kavkaz. [Chakva]

Sbor chai︠a︡. Gruppa grechanok. Kavkaz. [Chakva]

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Second picking, (#4881).  Location: [Gildersleeve, Connecticut] / L.W. Hine.

Second picking, (#4881). Location: [Gildersleeve, Connecticut] / L.W....

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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 f...

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

[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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Muganʹ. Uchastok khlopka, istreblennyĭ sarancheĭ. Pos. Grafovka

Muganʹ. Uchastok khlopka, istreblennyĭ sarancheĭ. Pos. Grafovka

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Fred Nozzecho, 604 Annin St., Philadelphial. Five years old. Picking this year. 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. Wit[ness] E.F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

Fred Nozzecho, 604 Annin St., Philadelphial. Five years old. Picking t...

A group of people sitting in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 p...

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

g. Drissa. Obshchīĭ vid s si︠e︡v.-vostoka

g. Drissa. Obshchīĭ vid s si︠e︡v.-vostoka

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monakhi za rabotoĭ. Posadka kartofeli︠a︡. [Geḟsimanskīĭ skit]

Monakhi za rabotoĭ. Posadka kartofeli︠a︡. [Geḟsimanskīĭ skit]

A black and white photo of a group of people working in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ploughing stubble. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Ploughing stubble. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows two men driving two teams of horses pulling plows, tilling the soil in a field, as hens root about in the stubble. T5437 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil. Remarque: man carrying sheaf. Other... More

Scene on farm in southeastern Alaska, where small fruits and vegetables grow to twice the size usual elsewhere in the U.S.

Scene on farm in southeastern Alaska, where small fruits and vegetable...

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

Gruppa rabochikh na sbori︠e︡ chai︠a︡. Grechanki. [Chakva]

Gruppa rabochikh na sbori︠e︡ chai︠a︡. Grechanki. [Chakva]

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

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,...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 845. Hine no. 845-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 831. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to "pick, pick." Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry pic...

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Selo Vidogoshchi v 37 v. ot Tveri

Selo Vidogoshchi v 37 v. ot Tveri

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A group of cranberry pickers moving from one part of the bog to another. Whites 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.

A group of cranberry pickers moving from one part of the bog to anothe...

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

La Grossa family, 2 children and mother. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown,.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

La Grossa family, 2 children and mother. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, n...

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

"Not a very happy job!" Mary Gilbert, said 10 years old. Lives Second Street, New Bedford. "Am pickin' now, couldn't get no place this mornin'."  Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

"Not a very happy job!" Mary Gilbert, said 10 years old. Lives Second ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Napoleon Leighton, Said 9 years old, 14 1/2 Griffin Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Also young Portuguese girl about 11 years old.  Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Napoleon Leighton, Said 9 years old, 14 1/2 Griffin Street, New Bedfor...

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Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the 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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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. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day.  Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

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

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3547. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Group blocking out the sugar beets on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915.  Location: Wisconsin.

Group blocking out the sugar beets on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Repor...

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

Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg recently with the hook on the end of the knife. See Hine report. Photo Oct. 22/15.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg rec...

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

[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. 21/15]

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

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

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

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

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

Conrad Elrod, R 3, hoeing strawberries.  Location: Warren County--Plano, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Conrad Elrod, R 3, hoeing strawberries. Location: Warren County--Plan...

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

Measuring height of grain on government farm, Fairbanks Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Measuring height of grain on government farm, Fairbanks Alaska - Frank...

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

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....

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

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...

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

Harold Oliphant, 11 years old, driving the "double-shovel"--cultivating corn. Goes to Plano School--been to school only part of past 5 weeks when not working. Father, W.B. Oliphant, Box 138, Bowling Green, Ky. Said to own several hundred acres.  Location: Warren County--Bowling Green, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Harold Oliphant, 11 years old, driving the "double-shovel"--cultivatin...

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

Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father, John Richard rents farm near Centre School.  Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old....

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Slovaks blocking and thinning beets near Corunna.  Location: Corunna, Michigan / L.W. Hine.

Slovaks blocking and thinning beets near Corunna. Location: Corunna, ...

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[Aerial view of terraced fields and roadway with a military vehicle in a mountainous region of the Kiangsu Province or Yunnan Province in China]
[Members of the Jorbu family, digging in pile, houses of Lachung in background, Sikkim]

[Members of the Jorbu family, digging in pile, houses of Lachung in ba...

Label from LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 086 (color reference copy): "Jorbu family farming". Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-2203. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs ... More

Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the "bushel-man." Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long di...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1137. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (Near Denison). "She's a good steady picker. Works all day long," her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. Location: Bells, Texas

Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3549. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4576. Hine no. 4577. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... 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. The...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1138. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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 years ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1106. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Selo Vidogoshchi v 37 v. ot Tveri, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Selo Vidogoshchi v 37 v. ot Tveri, color sepa...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, from its source in the... 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...

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Uncle Tom's cabin, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Uncle Tom's cabin, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 ...

Caption: Topsy. Created by "A.S. Seer's Union Square Print., N.Y." Signed: Vic Arnold. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Uncle Tom's cabin, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Uncle Tom's cabin, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 ...

Caption: Topsy. Created by "A.S. Seer's Union Square Print., N.Y." Signed: Vic Arnold. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Dolina r. Iseti u sela Kolchedanskago

Dolina r. Iseti u sela Kolchedanskago

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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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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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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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Sbor khlopka v Begavati︠e︡. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

Sbor khlopka v Begavati︠e︡. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

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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. Locatio...

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Name: A four year old helper in the berry field Rock Creek, Baltimore, Md. Mother said, "He helps a little." July 7, 1909.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Name: A four year old helper in the berry field Rock Creek, Baltimore,...

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Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near B[alti]more. (See label 835).  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near B[alti]more. (See lab...

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Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bottomley 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 Bottomley farm, near Baltimore, Md....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 837. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Catherine Celaberta, 766 [or 756?] S. Darian St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6 years old. Been picking this summer 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. Sept. 27, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Catherine Celaberta, 766 [or 756?] S. Darian St., Philadelphia, Pennsy...

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Monakhi za rabotoĭ. Posadka kartofeli︠a︡. [Geḟsimanskīĭ skit]

Monakhi za rabotoĭ. Posadka kartofeli︠a︡. [Geḟsimanskīĭ skit]

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Antone Fontes. Said 11 years old, and worked here last year. Lives in E. Providence, R.I.  Location: Makepeace near Wareham, Massachusetts.

Antone Fontes. Said 11 years old, and worked here last year. Lives in ...

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Group of workers on Smart's Bog.  Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts.

Group of workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], M...

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Manuel Thomas, 2 years old. Was picking a little.  Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusetts.

Manuel Thomas, 2 years old. Was picking a little. Location: Falmouth ...

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Group of Workers on Smart's Bog.  Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts.

Group of Workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], M...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2575. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3678. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Work that Educates. Weeding with his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, August 1914. Location: Bennington, Vermont

Work that Educates. Weeding with his father, John Spargo. Bennington, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3999-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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 eleven...

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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...

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

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

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[Willie Nall, 11 years old; Raymond Jones, 10 years old; Denver Jones, 5 years old; plowing on farm. They had just finished a job of hauling. See report.]  Location: [Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Willie Nall, 11 years old; Raymond Jones, 10 years old; Denver Jones,...

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