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Farm Work

Anthony Martina, Buffalo, New York

Lewis Hine caption: Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 11 years old last summer. Attends School #1. He and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping beans at 1 cents a pound. Left for the country in May, returned late in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Hugo Umhoefer, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

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...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Isabella Roy, Fall River, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' since I was 5 years old." Lives 44 Bowler St., Fall River. Sister Jeanette said 6 years old beginning to pick now. Also their cousin Anita (on right hand) 7 years old regular picker. Began … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Laura Petty, Pasadena, Maryland

Lewis Hine caption: Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore, Md. "I'm just beginnin'. Picked two boxes yesterday. (2 cents a box). July 8, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland. (See my report July 10, 1909.) This photo is little Laura … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

John Slebzak, Pasadena, Maryland

Lewis Hine caption: John Slebzak. Location: (near) Baltimore, Maryland, July 1909. Lewis Hine caption: Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bot[t]omley farm, near Baltimore, Md. They have worked here 3 years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. All work except the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Merrick Family, Seaford, Delaware

Lewis Hine caption: Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. Cyral (in baby cart) is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. At times Cyral would rest his little head on his arm and fall asleep for a few minutes and then wake up, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Alberta McNatt, Cannon Delaware

Lewis Hine caption: Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's farm at Cannon, Del. Alberta is 5 years of age and has been picking berries since she was 3. Her mother volunteered the information that she picks steadily from sun-up to sun-down. Location: Cannon, Delaware, May … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Jacob Rommel Family, Fort Collins, Colorado

Lewis Hine caption: A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Kirkpatrick Family, Lawton, Oklahoma

Lewis Hine caption: Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Oklahoma. Children go to Mineral Wells School #39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. "We pick a bale in four days." Dovey, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds a day (average) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Warren Frakes, Comanche County, Oklahoma

Lewis Hine caption: 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. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine, October 11, 1916. Lewis Hine caption: Family … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Harold & Jewell Walker, Geronimo, Oklahoma

Lewis Hine caption: Jewell and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Edgar Kitchens, Bowling Green, Kentucky

"Lewis Hine caption: Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week for 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Hazel Family, Bowling Green, Kentucky

Lewis Hine caption: Hazel family (very poorly educated). Children have not been to school this year although living within 1 1/2 miles of school 5-7. Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky, November 10, 1916. Lewis Hine caption: Mrs. J.L. Hazel and children stripping tobacco. A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Fugate Family, Hedges Station, Kentucky

Lewis Hine caption: 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, August 7, 1916. "I know he got through the eighth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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