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Lena Lochiavo: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 11:44am.
Cincinnati, August 1908. "Lena Lochiavo, 11 years old, 209 West Sixth Street. Basket [and pretzel] seller at Sixth Street Market in front of saloon entrance." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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The Reading Tree: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 4:19am.
July 1939. "Negro tenant farmer reading paper on a hot Saturday afternoon. Note vegetable garden across footpath. Chatham County, North Carolina." Photograph by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Marlboro Boy: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:47am.
July 1939. "Ten-year-old son of tobacco sharecropper can do a 'hand's work' at harvest time." Seen here feeding logs into the fire next to flue of the curing barn. Granville County, North Carolina. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
Granville County: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:39am.
July 1939. "Grandson of Negro tenant farmer whose father is in the penitentiary." Granville County, North Carolina. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
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Shoofly Tobacco: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:31am.
July 1939. Shoofly, North Carolina. "Tobacco field in early morning where white sharecropper and wage laborer are priming tobacco." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
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Lil Shuckers: 1912
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 9:51pm.
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February 1912. Port Royal, South Carolina. "Nine [?] of these children from 8 yrs. old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after on school days, and on Saturday from 4 a.m. to early afternoon. Maggioni Canning Co." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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A New Beginning: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 8:31pm.
October 1939. "Ex-Nebraska farmer now developing farm out of the stumps. Bonner County, Idaho." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
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