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"Want any more MEN?" 7 year old Alec applying for job on tobacco farms. "Like fun I take what what sic they give me. A dollar a day is the cheapest I work." Location: Connecticut. L.W. Hine

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. L.W. Hine

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Group of tobacco pickers in Bermant plantation, 3 were 10 yrs, 3 were 11 yrs, 13 were 12 yrs, 12 were 13 yrs, 2-14 yrs old. The owner said, "They all get $1.25 a day." Location: Rockwell, Connecticut. L.W. Hine

Group of tobacco pickers in Bermant plantation, 3 were 10 yrs, 3 were 11 yrs, 13 were 12 yrs, 12 were 13 yrs, 2-14 yrs old. The owner said, "They all get $1.25 a day." Location: Rockwell, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Field-workers, American Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 yrs. old, all working but could not get hold of them all. The Supt. said, "We have to hire boys because we can't get men to do the work." Many of them live in Hartord, Conn., and go back and forth on the trolley. Location: South Windsor, Connecticut L.W. Hine

Field-workers, Amer. Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 years old, all working but could not get hold of them all. The Supt. said, "We have to hire boys because we can't get men to do the work." Many of them live in Hartford, Conn., and go back and forth on the trolley. Location: South Windsor, Connecticut L.W. Hine

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 years. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut L.W. Hine

"Want any more MEN?" 7 year old Alec applying for job on tobacco farms. "Like fun I take what what [sic] they give me. A dollar a day is the cheapest I work." Location: Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

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01/01/1917
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Harborview ,  41.08204, -73.40873
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label_outline Explore Tobacco Farms, Alec, Dirt Roads

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo "tie up waste"; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo but they lose a good deal of schooling for work) are regular strippers. Photo taken during school hours. Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Two people are standing on top of a bar chart. Refugees economic migrants financial equalization, business finance.

Row of mill houses belonging to Holden, Leonard Co., woolen mill, Bennington, Vt. Rents are from $6 to $8 a month. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Field-workers, Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. See Report. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut L.W. Hine

General Correspondence: Ogilvie, Alec, 1909-1911

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.

General Correspondence: Ogilvie, Alec, 1918-1924, undated

Two women walking down road, one carrying bundle on head

General Correspondence: Ogilvie, Alec, 1909-1911

General Correspondence: Ogilvie, Alec, 1912-1914

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