Lewis Hine caption: Group of children, 7-9-11-13-14 years old, hoeing corn for father on farm near Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Joe Umhoefer, July 1915. Location: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. "My parents always stressed the importance of their children getting an education. They … [Read more...]
Belton Cotton Mill
Selena Walls worked at the Belton Cotton Mill, in Belton, Texas, when she was as young as eight or nine years old; and she worked in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill (no photo available), in West, Texas, when she was as young as 12 years old. The following appeared in the … [Read more...]
Canaday family, Ola, Idaho
Dorothea Lange caption: Wife and baby of president of Ola self-help sawmill co-op in doorway of their home. Gem County, Idaho, October 1939. This is one of my favorite Dorothea Lange photos. She took many at the Ola Self-Help Sawmill in the small village of Ola, in 1938. Three … [Read more...]
Mary & Dora Roberts, Winchendon, Massachusetts
Lewis Hine caption: Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dora Roberts in mill. Lives at 13 Woodlawn St., there are 13 in the family, five or six working. Apparently prosperous. In this group is also Corinne Cuillette. Location: Winchendon, … [Read more...]
Reed’s Landing, Coxsackie, New York (2008)
June 20, 2008: My family has been taking daytrips to Greene County, New York since the early 1970s. My wife grew up in Long Island. In the 1950s, her family often vacationed at a lakeside camp of cottages in the tiny town of Craryville, just a few miles east of the Taconic … [Read more...]
Vibrant Music Scene In North Berkshire Spawns Graceful CD (2002)
Windsor Lake, the glorious new CD by The Flying Garbanzos, is the result of the kind of offhanded collaboration that can only thrive in a rich and diverse music scene. In the last decade, that scene has been quietly cultivated in North Berkshire. Dale Ott, 50, started playing … [Read more...]
John Howell, Indianapolis, Indiana
Lewis Hine caption: John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays. (Lives at 215 W. Michigan St.) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, August 1908. "In the evenings, he would go play pool, and me and my brother would go with him. He was a … [Read more...]
Urban Scenes
Cities have their own special curiosities: alleys, functional doo-dads on buildings, forlorn scenes in downtrodden neighborhoods, and in one case here, a person sitting on a stoop. The utilities in the two bottom photos, common gadgets on buildings in all cities and towns, … [Read more...]
History Of White Brothers Mills
All images provided by Eric White, unless otherwise noted. The following is a copy of a history of the White Brothers mills, written by the White family in 1942. Lewis Hine caption: Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling … [Read more...]
Dumb Ideas
I call this section Dumb Ideas for a reason that will become immediately obvious. I often think of these things during my wacky weekly breakfast conversations with my best friend in North Adams. Salad bars in funeral homes "While you're waiting, help yourself to our … [Read more...]
Elbert & Ruby Hollingsworth, Denison, Texas
Lewis Hine caption: 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 … [Read more...]
Henry Smith, Winchendon, Massachusetts
Lewis Hine caption: Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis Pagnette. Also Henry Smith, Maple Street. Location: Winchendon, … [Read more...]
Unidentified Newsboy, St. Louis, Missouri
Lewis Hine caption: Truants selling papers at Jefferson & Washington 11 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Smallest boy is Marvin Adams, 2637 Wahington Ave. Said he got his papers "off'n de other feller." Other boy is Owen McCormack, 2651 Washington Avenue. Location: St. Louis, … [Read more...]
James McCutcheon, Eastport, Maine
Lewis Hine caption: Fulsom McCutcheon, 11 years old, has been working at the covering machines in Eastport canning factory, also cutting some. In the background is a typical sardine factory. Location: Eastport, Maine, August 1911. When James Philson McCutcheon posed for Lewis … [Read more...]
William & Nellie Oppel, Winton, Minnesota
Russell Lee caption: Storekeeper and his wife in front of their store at section 30. "Bust" iron mining town near Winton, Minnesota, August 1937. Section 30 was a community formed by an iron ore mine. According to information on the website of the Minnesota Humanities … [Read more...]
Grayson Forsyth, Eastport, Maine
Lewis Hine caption: Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 … [Read more...]
Guillette Family, Winchendon, Massachusetts
Lewis Hine caption: Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dora Roberts in mill. Lives at 13 Woodlawn St., there are 13 in the family, five or six working. Apparently prosperous. In this group is also Corinne Cuillette. Location: Winchendon, … [Read more...]
Wilfrid Tow family, Laredo, Montana
Marion Post Wolcott caption: FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower and two of his children. Laredo, Montana, August, 1941. On June 23, 1938, according to National Weather Service records: “More than five inches of rain fell in the Gravelly Coulee watershed in one hour, … [Read more...]
Catherine Young & Family, Chapter Three: Child Labor In Georgia
The following is from The Survey, 1906 The New Child Labor Law in Georgia: Samuel McCune Lindsay, Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee Georgia is the industrial leader of the new industrial South. At least one quarter of all the children under fourteen … [Read more...]
Toll Taker 47, Hog Heaven, & Jack And Jill: The Final Chapter
Toll Taker 47 was inspired by a glorious moment of serendipity experienced by one of my daughters. Hog Heaven was inspired by a radio conversation about eating. Jack And Jill: The Final Chapter came to me from out of nowhere while I was riding on the New York … [Read more...]
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