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Pete Trombetta, 10 years of age, 6th season of work. Salvatore Trombetta, 14 years of age, 8th season of work, picks 200 quarts of berries a day. Mary Trombetta, 11 years of age, 6th season, picks 100 quarts berries per day on Johnson's Farm, Seaford, Del. These children start picking at about 5:30 A.M. and continue until 6 P.M. in the evening. The padrone estimated that the family of 6 can make from $9 to $12 per day picking 12 to 13 hours. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Seaford, Del. May 28, 1910. Location: Seaford, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Pete Trombetta, 10 years of age, 6th season of work. Salvatore Trombet...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1584. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Anne, small picker. Said 7 years old. Location: Rochester vicinity - Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Anne, small picker. Said 7 years old. Location: Rochester vicinity - E...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2545. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Manuel White, father with two children - Johnnie, 7 years - Sylva 12 years. Live on Brook Street, Dighton, Massachusetts. Family picks 72 measures a day at 6 cents. Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusettsachusetts

Manuel White, father with two children - Johnnie, 7 years - Sylva 12 y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2578. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

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

Hickory Grove School. Location: Rockcastle Co., Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Hickory Grove School. Location: Rockcastle Co., Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4431. "Div. 2" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when "suckering." See 4400. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm i...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4401. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He gets $3 a week; is not working for his own parents. Starts on the wagon at 7 A.M.; works seven days in the week driving the wagon, and on the farm six afternoons. See report. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He ge...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4128. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Recess games in charge of grade teacher of Jefferson School. See Miss Folks' report. Location: Muskogee, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Recess games in charge of grade teacher of Jefferson School. See Miss ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4813. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Bartrum Choate, a 12-year-old boy driving colts to town. Works for W.F. Barber, Route 3, Lawton, Okla. Location: Lawton vicinity, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Bartrum Choate, a 12-year-old boy driving colts to town. Works for W.F...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4807. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomley's near Baltimore, Md. The dining room. (See report July 10, 1909). Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomley's near Baltimore, Md. The dining ro...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 851. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... 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

Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about wight i.e., eight pounds a day, regularly. See #3598. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3599. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their farms in a few years. Location: Sterling, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2115

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3996. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year old sister on a Wisconsin farm near St. John. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: St. John vicinity, Wisconsin

Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3957. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, pulling beets. The overalls are used by many girls and women. They said they begin sometimes at 5 A.M., usually about 6 or 7, and work until 6 P.M. with an hour off at noon. An 8 yr old sister works some. These 4 children, with the father and mother, work a large plot of beets on contract for W.E. Damm, near Sterling Colo. Mr. Damm said this family would make from $800 to $900 this season, with two or three hundred dollars out for expenses Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine. Oct. 2115

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

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title information from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3999. Hine no. 3998. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Cong... More

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3614. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4449. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The children go to Parochial School. Location: Hardin County--Stithton, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The chi...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4520. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... 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

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

75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old store building near Negro High School, with 1 teacher. Location: Muskogee, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old ...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4772. Hine no. 4773. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

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

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, 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 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3551. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Attendance at the Jeffers School on November 30, 15. 15 in attendance and more to come. Location: Loveland vicinity, Colorado L.W. Hine

Attendance at the Jeffers School on November 30, 15. 15 in attendance ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4060. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

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

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

Rake used by Wisconsin cranberry growers. Notice two handles and their position. They enable the maker to stand and use the rake with a swinging motion as in 3767 and 3768. Location: Grand Rapids, Wisconsin. Photo by and courtesy of owner, Mr. Andrew Searles

Rake used by Wisconsin cranberry growers. Notice two handles and their...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3766. Non-Hine photographer: Searles, Andrew. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3768. Non-Hine photographer: Searles, Andrew. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

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

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

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

School #9, District #3. This was the attendance on December 3, and several children were absent on account of sickness. Compare photographs 4052 and 4053 with attendance consisting of one pupil on October 27 - 5 weeks after school began. Location: Morgan County, Colorado. L.W. Hine

School #9, District #3. This was the attendance on December 3, and sev...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4067. Hine no. 4068. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Bell School opened yesterday with only 8 in school. Probable it will be closed. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Bell School opened yesterday with only 8 in school. Probable it will b...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4512. "Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

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

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

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

Rock Creek School #32 (5 miles east of Shawnee) opened September 11th--8 months term. 34 present. J.W. Evans, Principal, P.O. Route 2, Shawnee, said there are only half as many as he expects after cotton picking is over. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma

Rock Creek School #32 (5 miles east of Shawnee) opened September 11th-...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4587. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Woodburn School (consolidated). See Kentucky report. Location: Warren County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Woodburn School (consolidated). See Kentucky report. Location: Warren ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4602. Hine no. 4603. "Div. 5, Dist. 9" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; prob... More

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....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4519. "Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... 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

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3598. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and returned to town. The school is very well equipped and well kept, with a capable man teacher, good playground apparatus, etc. Location: Brush, Colorado Photo by Hine

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a pos...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4054. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Lucy Saunders hitching the team to the horse rake. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts?, Massachusetts?

Lucy Saunders hitching the team to the horse rake. See Hine Report, Ru...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3978. No location recorded on caption card; possibly Western Massachusetts based on cards for photos with n... More

Teixiera family, 50 Lombardt St., New Bedford. Mary J., 11 years; Manuel 10 years. Mother and these two children pick 40 measures a day at 7 cents a measure. See scoops and pail in foreground. There were two out of eighteen workers apparently under 12 and they expected to work several weeks more--losing some weeks of schooling. Location: Falmouth - Plimmey ? Bog, Massachusetts

Teixiera family, 50 Lombardt St., New Bedford. Mary J., 11 years; Manu...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2573. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

"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

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

Estice Webb Herrmann, who left the seventh grade of the Elizabethtown, Ky. Public School in October 1915 soon after commencing the grade to be married. Was only 15 years old. Now living on a small farm far from neighbors and with no one but her husband and mother-in-law. She is standing with her husband. See report. Location: White Mills vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

Estice Webb Herrmann, who left the seventh grade of the Elizabethtown,...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4103. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same. L.W. Hine Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4106. Hine no. 4108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

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 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

Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres, in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said: "I'd ruther go to school." See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Southern Vermont, Vermont

Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acre...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3993. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4474. "Div. 4" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6. Location: H...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4468. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Roundstone School. Many poorly built schools in county. Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Roundstone School. Many poorly built schools in county. Location: Rock...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4435. "Div. 6" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4529. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous farm. In foreground is Wyatt Pruett, 14 years old. Goes to Pruett School, Div. 3, Henderson, Ky. There are 4 boys working now. Father is in background. Location: Hebbardsville vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous f...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4494. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Pioneer School #13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd--7 months term. Miss Lela Ginsinger, Principal (been here 2 years). Photo shows only 6 children present and 2 teachers in the third week of school. Expect 24 pupils. All absences are due to cotton. A few of the larger ones will be out in the Spring for cotton. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma

Pioneer School #13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd--...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4600. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomley's near Baltimore, Md. The dining room. (See report July 10, 1909). Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomley's near Baltimore, Md. The dining ro...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 851. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... 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

Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. X 5 12 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking cranberries in photo #1151.) Wooden toilets near at hand, and bushes used as such, gave forth very offensive odors. Turkeytown, near Pembertown, N.J. E.F. Brown Witness. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey

Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

A little country store near New Hope School #41. Mrs. M.E. Geralds, P.O. Route 2, Tecumseh, Okla., is in charge; also a customer. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma

A little country store near New Hope School #41. Mrs. M.E. Geralds, P....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4586. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

Showing pickers at Swift's Bog. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts

Showing pickers at Swift's Bog. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2562. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

A picture of a cotton field - National child labor committee

A picture of a cotton field - National child labor committee

Title from NCLC caption card for no. 3269. Original caption card data does not match image. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3268. Credit line: National Child Labor Commi... More

Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Lab...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3966. Hine no. 3967. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... 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...

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

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing away the grain. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3990. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... More

Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sugar City, Colorado

Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3942. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4399. 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: Coma...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4581. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4458. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

6:00 A.M. at Post Office Square. Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra Tobacco Farm, South Windsor. They return about 7 P.M. Location: Hartford, Connecticut L.W. Hine

6:00 A.M. at Post Office Square. Truck load of tobacco workers bound f...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4893. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

14-year-old boy hauling water on farm near Lawton. Francis Heinz, Route B, Box 11. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

14-year-old boy hauling water on farm near Lawton. Francis Heinz, Rout...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4806. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1123. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camped near Ft. Collins, Colo. Street family. The children 7- 8- 10- and 12 work steadily and I saw the tiny girl pulling beets after sunset on the following Sunday, and they had not yet finished. The father told me "We got squeezed out of the mountains," one of the neighbors said they has been chased out because they wouldn't send their children to school. Living on the edge of Ft. Collins, they boldly work the children and violate school law. Came from Log Cabin, Colo. Location: Fort Collins vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 3015

The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camp...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4050. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Rock Spring School which opened September 5th. Census 49, Enrollment of 28, attendance 25. Expect an enrollment of 35. Tobacco is chief cause of absence. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Rock Spring School which opened September 5th. Census 49, Enrollment o...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4481. "Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, Attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, Attendance 7. T...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4479. "Div. 4" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

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

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

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

Lummie Durrett. See report. Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

Lummie Durrett. See report. Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4115. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4480. "Div. 4" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.? Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3615. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near West. Will raise twenty bales of cotton this year. These are all members of family. The five year old picks cotton some. The seven year old picks one hundred pounds a day. The nine year old picks about a hundred pounds. The eleven year old two hundred pounds, thirteen year old two hundred and fifty pounds. The adults pick three or four hundred a day. Note the care they take of the children and of the home. (It was the end of a week and a sort of holiday, but the whole situation shows how much better standard the farm owners keep than do the "renters". See Hine report. Contrast with this photo some of those of the "renters."). Location: West, Texas

Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near Wes...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3645. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

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

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

Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said: "She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in school--5th grade." He owns the farm and expects to build soon. Location: Hardin County--Sonora vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4419. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

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

Joe said 6 years old and his sister said 8 years old. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. Location: East Wareham vicinity - Maple Park Bog, Massachusetts

Joe said 6 years old and his sister said 8 years old. Nine out of the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2549. 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

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

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