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Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosev...

Stereograph showing Roosevelt surrounded by children. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosev...

Stereograph showing Roosevelt surrounded by children. H17856 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosev...

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A young berry picker on a Rock Creek farm near Baltimore, Md. Location: Baltimore, Maryland

A young berry picker on a Rock Creek farm near Baltimore, Md. Location...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 847. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3646. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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 La...

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A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

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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

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

Work that Educates.Twelve-year old boy tending chickens with his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914. Location: Bennington, Vermont

Work that Educates.Twelve-year old boy tending chickens with his fathe...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3997A. Hine no. 3998-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Pri... More

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.] Location: [Ordway vicinity, Colorado]

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets nea...

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Rural Accident. Eleven-year old Wason, driving horse to the field. See photos of his brother Clinton Stewart. See Hine Report, August 1915

Rural Accident. Eleven-year old Wason, driving horse to the field. See...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3988. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... 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

Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wiscons...

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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...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4037. Hine no. 4038. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, "We all got to do all we can.") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2515

Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4043. The phrase, "this year" is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committe... More

Group of children, 7-9-11-13-14 years old, hoeing corn for father on farm near Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Joe Umhoefer. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

Group of children, 7-9-11-13-14 years old, hoeing corn for father on f...

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Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wiscons...

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A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, leaving the final pull to be exerted by the workers. Hine. Oct. 1915. Location: Colorado

A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, lea...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4036. No Colorado location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection... More

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves some heavy lifting. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3968. Hine no. 3969. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... 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

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty kee...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3970. Hine no. 3971. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Eight-year old Jack driving load of hay. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack driving load of hay. See Hine Report, Rural Child ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3973. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3964. Hine no. 3965. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

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.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

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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.

[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].

[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of ...

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

Children belonging to families of Stark and Schwartz, beet workers near Sterling, Colo. The 6, -8, and 9 yr. olds pull and pile, two 12 yr. olds pull and top. Family, including children, work from 5 A.M. to 6 P.M., with only half an hour for lunch, a work-day of over 12 hours. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2215

Children belonging to families of Stark and Schwartz, beet workers nea...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4021. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

[Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said: "The children can thin the beets better than grown ups. We all work fourteen hours a day at times because when the beets is ready they has to be done. About twelve weeks is about all the children can work on thinning and topping. Some of them hoe a little. See Hine Report, Colorado Bee[t] Workers, July, 1915.] Location: [Greeley vicinity, Colorado]

[Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard a...

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

11 year old daughter of Mr. Schneider. She and her 7 year old sister are kept out of school to work in the beets in spite of the fact that the father owns a farm of 250 acres, and he boasted last year that he had made $10,000 from the proceeds of this farm. Location: Fort Morgan vicinity, Colorado L.W. Hine

11 year old daughter of Mr. Schneider. She and her 7 year old sister a...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4065. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3955. No specific Wisconsin location recorded on caption card. Phrase "git no rest" is underlined on the ca... 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 ...

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

Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin

Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3958. No specific Wisconsin location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee ... 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 ...

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Mrs. Paul Saunders and her children. They run the farm of over 100 acres with the help of two hired men. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915

Mrs. Paul Saunders and her children. They run the farm of over 100 acr...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3994. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... More

Missing. Pulling beets. Location: Colorado?

Missing. Pulling beets. Location: Colorado?

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4023. Caption has typed comment: "Missing," and handwritten notation, "Pulling beets." No location or date ... More

A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along the sides of the beet rows and loosen the soil -- but they do not pull the beets -- the workers finish pulling by hand, often with some extra exertion. A kind of hand plow puller is often used on small farms. Near Sterling, Oct. 2315. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along t...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4028. Phrase "do not" is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collec... More

Part of Walker family pulling and piling beets. See label 4018. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 1915

Part of Walker family pulling and piling beets. See label 4018. Locati...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title information from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4034. Hine no. 4035. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Cong... More

Two families, including boy of 8 yrs. and girl of 10 yrs., working on farm of Frank Herdenreder, near Sterling, Colo. They work from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. usually. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine. Oct. 2215

Two families, including boy of 8 yrs. and girl of 10 yrs., working on ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4010. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.] Location: [Ordway vicinity, Colorado].

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets nea...

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

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 ...

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[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work.] Location: [Iliff, Colorado] / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppi...

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

(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. 22/15.

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

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

This shows a typical beet-topping knife, with the dangerous hook on the end that is used to pick up the beet. This is the ten-year-old Walker boy, (see label 4018) belonging to a well-to-do family, but kept out of school to work. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 1915

This shows a typical beet-topping knife, with the dangerous hook on th...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4033. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said: "The children can thin the beets better than grown ups. We all work fourteen hours a day at times because when the beets is ready they has to be done. About twelve weeks is about all the children can work on thinning and topping. Some of them hoe a little. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Greeley vicinity, Colorado

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3930. Hine no. 3932. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves some heavy lifting. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3968. 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. 30/15]. Location: [Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine.

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

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

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty kee...

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

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.

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty kee...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3976. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Mrs. Paul Saunders and her children. They run the farm of over 100 acres with the help of two hired men. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.

Mrs. Paul Saunders and her children. They run the farm of over 100 acr...

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[Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves some heavy lifting. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.] Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts]

[Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involve...

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

Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful sic topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing sic and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work. Location: Iliff, Colorado Photo by Hine., Oct. 2215

Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful sic topping ...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4007. Hine no. 4008. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

[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...

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Seven-year-old Maggie Wohn pulls and piles the beets. See preceding photos. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

Seven-year-old Maggie Wohn pulls and piles the beets. See preceding ph...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4015. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Part of the Schneider family at work in the beets. See photograph 4065. Location: Fort Morgan vicinity, Colorado L.W. Hine

Part of the Schneider family at work in the beets. See photograph 4065...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4069. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty kee...

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

[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, eigh...

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"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

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

Rural Accident. Mr. Stewart is running a farm of 135 acres with the help of his wife and these two boys of eleven and twelve years. See Hine Report, August 1915.

Rural Accident. Mr. Stewart is running a farm of 135 acres with the he...

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[This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.] Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts]

[This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augu...

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

Family of John H. Children 8, 10, 13, 15 yrs. old pulling and picking beets on farm at Iliff? Ten members of the family. They will make about $900 this season but have very heavy expenses so will only clear about $200 or $300. Location: Iliff, Colorado

Family of John H. Children 8, 10, 13, 15 yrs. old pulling and picking ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4006. No date recorded on caption card; estimated on the basis of cards for photos with neighboring numbers... More

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty kee...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3961. 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, R...

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This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3964. 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

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves some heavy lifting. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves...

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[Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.] Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts]

[Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty ke...

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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

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3962. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Ordway vicinity, Colorado

Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3937. Hine no. 3939. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Children thrashing corn during school hours on a farm near Dublin. Many such light occupations fall to the lot of the Georgia child. Location: Dublin vicinity, Georgia

Children thrashing corn during school hours on a farm near Dublin. Man...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3908. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks cotton. The father said: "He ain't very fast." Said he was 10 years old. The sister said he was 12 years old. Location: Valdosta, Georgia

Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and wil...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3907. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

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Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Ordway vicinity, Colorado

Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3937. Hine no. 3938. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... 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. 3992. 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...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3942. Hine no. 3943. Negative incorrectly marked LC-H5-3943. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee... More

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

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Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job for such a child. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2315

Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4024. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. ...

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Eight-year old Jack driving load of hay. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack driving load of hay. See Hine Report, Rural Child ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

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

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. 3991. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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

Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful sic topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing sic and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work. Location: Iliff, Colorado Photo by Hine., Oct. 2215

Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful sic topping ...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4007. Hine no. 4009. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

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Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Colorado.

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...

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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 yea...

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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

Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine which cut off his hand. See Hine Report, August 1915

Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3987. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... More

Group of children, 7-9-11-13-14 years old, hoeing corn for father on farm near Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Joe Umhoefer. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Group of children, 7-9-11-13-14 years old, hoeing corn for father on f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3960. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Wohn family, near Sterling Colo. See photos and labels preceding. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

Wohn family, near Sterling Colo. See photos and labels preceding. Loca...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4014. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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 yea...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3940. Hine no. 3941. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the family of Jacob Walker, a prosperous beet raiser near Sterling. His 6, 8 & 10 yr. old children are kept out of school and worked, in spite of the fact that he owns 225 acres of land here worth several hundred dollars an acre. Father, mother and seven children work. Walker moved here from Nebraska 8 yrs. ago. They work hard and continuously. See also photos 4033-4 and 5. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine Oct. 2215

Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4018. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Colorado

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3947. No specific Colorado location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee c... 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. 30/15.

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

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

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.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

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

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said: "The children can thin the beets better than grown ups. We all work fourteen hours a day at times because when the beets is ready they has to be done. About twelve weeks is about all the children can work on thinning and topping. Some of them hoe a little. See Hine Report, Colorado Bee[t] Workers, July, 1915. Location: Greeley [vicinity], Colorado.

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at...

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

[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, eigh...

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

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...

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