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Monakhi za rabotoĭ. Posadka kartofeli︠a︡. [Geḟsimanskīĭ skit]

Monakhi za rabotoĭ. Posadka kartofeli︠a︡. [Geḟsimanskīĭ skit]

A black and white photo of a line of trees. 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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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, Div. 2, Clark Co., Ky., but Roland and Bush, 14 years old have not started yet--about 3 weeks after it opened. Father rents this farm of 160 acres. Bush is also topping. Location: Clark Co.--Winchester, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

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

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4393. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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....

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

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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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4882. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

[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

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, 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...

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

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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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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Dzhugara. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ - Public domain scan / photograph

Dzhugara. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ - Public domain scan / photograph

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

Harvest - Print, Library of Congress collection

Harvest - Print, Library of Congress collection

F48326 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

A young berry picker on Bottomley's farm, near Baltimore, Md. She worked one winter at Youngs Island, S.C. Mother says, "No more."  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

A young berry picker on Bottomley's farm, near Baltimore, Md. She work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A strawberry field on Rock Creek, near Baltimore. Whites and negroes, old and young, work here from 4:30 A.M. until sunset some days. A long hot day.  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

A strawberry field on Rock Creek, near Baltimore. Whites and negroes, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2525. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Ėti︠u︡d po puti na Ishni︠u︡. Rostov Velikīĭ (okrestnosti)

Ėti︠u︡d po puti na Ishni︠u︡. Rostov Velikīĭ (okrestnosti)

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

Arthur Farnande. 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 Farnande. Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and br...

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 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2532. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Arthur Fernande. 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. Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and br...

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

Obshchīĭ vid Pokrovskago zhensk. mon. s i︠u︡ga. [Suzdalʹ]

Obshchīĭ vid Pokrovskago zhensk. mon. s i︠u︡ga. [Suzdalʹ]

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Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister thirteen 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.  Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

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

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

Sanding the cranberry marsh in the winter - one of the aids towards securing the fine "stand" of vines shown in 3765. Owner - Mr. Andrew Searles. Photo through the courtesy of Mr. Searles.  Location: Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.

Sanding the cranberry marsh in the winter - one of the aids towards se...

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A fine "stand" of vines on Mr. Searle's marsh. Observe how erect the vines are! This makes gathering by the rake (3766 and 3767) an easy matter and absolutely does away with hand picking by women and children. Photo through courtesy of owner Mr. Andrew Searles. Location: Grand Rapids, Wisconsin

A fine "stand" of vines on Mr. Searle's marsh. Observe how erect the v...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3765. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Rural Accident. Four weeks after the accident Clinton was using his remaining hand to help in the farm work as best he could. His mother said: "Now we will have to educate him." See Hine Report, August 1915.

Rural Accident. Four weeks after the accident Clinton was using his re...

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

Conrad Helmut's two girls, 6 and 8 yrs. old, pulling beets, near Sterling, Colo. The ground was hard and the little ones tugged away at the beets steadily. There are three smaller children left alone in the shack at the far end of the field. Father said he will clear about $200 this season, -two parents and these two children. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine. Oct. 21/15.

Conrad Helmut's two girls, 6 and 8 yrs. old, pulling beets, near Sterl...

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[Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915.]].  Location: [Sugar City, Colorado].

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

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

This is the Day Nursery in the beet fields. Babies have to amuse themselves under the direction of those who are too small to work. Ordway, Colorado.  Location: Ordway, Colorado.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4486. "Div. 2" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4466. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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...

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

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4572. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Com...

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

George Barbee, 13 years old hoeing. Lives near Bell School.  Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

George Barbee, 13 years old hoeing. Lives near Bell School. Location:...

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Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska

Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska

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Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Field with two trees

Waldorf, Maryland and vicinity. Field with two trees

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[Three men in field with stacks of grain, Hungary] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[Three men in field with stacks of grain, Hungary] - Frank G. Carpente...

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Farming scenes. Field of stacked corn I

Farming scenes. Field of stacked corn I

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View from Trans-Siberian Railway, fallow grain fields and birch grove near Reshoty, Russia

View from Trans-Siberian Railway, fallow grain fields and birch grove ...

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, T︠S︡vi︠e︡t khlopka. Muganʹskai︠a︡ stepʹ, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, T︠S︡vi︠e︡t khlopka. Muganʹskai︠a︡ stepʹ, colo...

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Muganʹ. Khoroshīĭ khlopok, no v t︠s︡entr. chasti vidny pustyi︠a︡ mi︠e︡sta ot solont︠s︡a. Nikolaevka, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Muganʹ. Khoroshīĭ khlopok, no v t︠s︡entr. cha...

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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 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3550. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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, ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4100A. Hine no. 4102. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Print... More

Osenʹ. Ėti︠u︡d u der. Gorki. Borodino

Osenʹ. Ėti︠u︡d u der. Gorki. Borodino

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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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[Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

[Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

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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

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...

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Merilda. Carrying cranberries. Witness, Richard K. Conant.  Location: Rochester [vicinity] - Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Merilda. Carrying cranberries. Witness, Richard K. Conant. Location: ...

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Young picker.  Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Young picker. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachuse...

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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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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)

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 b...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Novyĭ Aḟon [monastyrʹ]. Vid s Iverskoĭ gory

Novyĭ Aḟon [monastyrʹ]. Vid s Iverskoĭ gory

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

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

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

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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Sartskīi︠a︡ poli︠a︡. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

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

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Cotton field, Retreat Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. / Photographed by Hubbard & Mix, Beaufort, S.C.

Cotton field, Retreat Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. / Photograph...

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field.

Chaĭnyi︠a︡ plantat︠s︡īi︠a︡. [Chakva]

Chaĭnyi︠a︡ plantat︠s︡īi︠a︡. [Chakva]

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