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William Berryman - [Sugar works]

William Berryman - [Sugar works]

Title from finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

[Sugar mill (machine), Puerto Rico] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[Sugar mill (machine), Puerto Rico] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Norfolk beet sugar factory. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Norfolk beet sugar factory. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Photograph shows interior of factory with group of men posed on landing and stairs.

Sugar Landing, Lower Levee, New Orleans, U. S. A

Sugar Landing, Lower Levee, New Orleans, U. S. A

Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

El juego Americano ping-pong Cuando se cansarán?

El juego Americano ping-pong Cuando se cansarán?

Cartoon shows Cuban President Thomas Estrada y Palma and Cuban Minister to the U.S. Gonzalo de Quesada playing ping pong on a table labeled "Washington / Havana" with a ball "Tratado reciprocidad Cubana America... More

Al dictamen extrangero  [i.e., extranjero], Political Cartoon

Al dictamen extrangero [i.e., extranjero], Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows a boxing sugar beet "Productores" (Producers) punching a man "Monopolio Refinador Americano" (American Refining Trust) with fists labeled "Teller Investigacion" and "Resolucion Ley de Reciprocida... More

The Conversion of Littlefield - Drawing. Public domain image.

The Conversion of Littlefield - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon shows Republican Charles Edgar Littlefield swinging a club "Anti-trust" over "Tariff." Theodore Roosevelt holds Littlefield's arm. Roosevelt wears a sword "Reciprocity" and Littlefield has "Intact high ... More

Bill posting - Political cartoon, public domain image

Bill posting - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cartoon shows the back of Francis B. Thurber "Reciprocity Missionary" who has just posted a billboard "Reciprocity on all products only exception sugars lighter than 16 D. S." Behind his back Thurber exchanges ... More

Theodore Roosevelt - Sweetly monopolized, Political Cartoon

Theodore Roosevelt - Sweetly monopolized, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows a wealthy man "Sugar Trust" holding a cloth (?) labeled "Reciprocity" in his fist. Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne, a skeleton representing Cuba, and Theodore Roosevelt all pull on ... More

Will he ever wake up? - Political cartoon, public domain image

Will he ever wake up? - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cartoon shows a dreaming man representing Cuba next to a sugar knife "Industria" with a sugar refinery in the background. In his dream a man "Sugar Trust" walks arm in arm with Cuban ambassador to the U.S. Gonz... More

Why not wear brogans? Shoes are too small

Why not wear brogans? Shoes are too small

Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne standing on two documents, "Tariff Law 1897 [subsection mark] 209, 16 Dutch % reduction enrich sugar trust," and "Annexation policy, assist Cuba, do n... More

Matemática diplomática - Political cartoon, public domain image

Matemática diplomática - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cartoon shows Special Envoy to Cuba Tasker Bliss wearing a sword "Reciprocity" showing a man "Cuba" a board with calculations showing that 20% for Cuba equals 70% for the United States. A vulture labeled "Anexi... More

American sugar producers - Political cartoon, public domain image

American sugar producers - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cartoon shows Special Envoy to Cuba Tasker H. Bliss standing before an army of sugar beets. In the background a man "Sugar Refining Trust" watches with a smile. Bliss holds a rolled sheet of paper "Cuban recipr... More

The sweetest spot on earth--sugar levee--New Orleans, La.

The sweetest spot on earth--sugar levee--New Orleans, La.

Stereograph showing men working among thousands of barrels of sugar; man in foreground tasting sugar from barrel; smoke from steamboat in background. H25722 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1902 by Underwood & ... More

Reciprocal percentage frothy Cuban relief, Political Cartoon

Reciprocal percentage frothy Cuban relief, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne holding full steins of beer. They each spit into an empty stein held by a man representing Cuba. At the foot of the man is a "c... More

The guns of reciprocity - Political cartoon, public domain image

The guns of reciprocity - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt sitting in front of the U.S. Capitol reciting his June 13, 1902 message to Congress. On the left is a Cuban cannon firing a shot through a rolled sheet of paper, "Cuban reciproc... More

In the interests of humanity and the American sugar refining combine

In the interests of humanity and the American sugar refining combine

Cartoon shows Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne sitting on the Republican side of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber dangling a fishing line over the Democratic side. The fish hook is labeled... More

Congressional puzzle: - find Cuba in the cartoon

Congressional puzzle: - find Cuba in the cartoon

Cartoon shows a ticker tape machine labeled "Tariff Law 1897 Dutch Standard." On the right the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, Henry O. Havemeyer surrounded by three overstuffed bags labeled "Sugar... More

Diplomacia infantil - Political cartoon, public domain image

Diplomacia infantil - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cartoon shows Cuban Minister to the U.S. Gonzalo de Quesada presenting a pot 'Olla Podrida" (Potpourri) filled with "Reciprocidad Mercantil" (Trade reciprocity), "Aspiraciones Americanas" (American aspirations)... More

Protected monopoly vs political exposure, Political Cartoon

Protected monopoly vs political exposure, Political Cartoon

Cartoon showsTheodore Roosevelt carrying a large rolled paper "Message." A man labeled "Sugar Trust" carries an umbrella labeled "Reciprocity" as a storm cloud "Tariff Revision" looms overhead. At the men's fee... More

Theodore Roosevelt - Star gazing, Political Cartoon

Theodore Roosevelt - Star gazing, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows President Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne arm in arm at the end of a pier "Sugar Trust Tariff Law 1897 [paragraph] 209, 16 Dutch." The pier is held up by post... More

Not one for reciprocity but millions for investment and annexation

Not one for reciprocity but millions for investment and annexation

Cartoon shows man "Sugar Refining Trust" pushing a wheelbarrow full of bags of money labeled "For Cuban Investment." A child "Philippino" rides atop the money "Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau, Washington, D.C."

Amending the treaty Enmendando el tratado.

Amending the treaty Enmendando el tratado.

Cartoon shows a boar "Bliss-Palma Protocolo" being de-tusked by Cuban Secretary of State Manuel Sanguily y Garritt and "Beet Remolacha." The de-tusking tools they use are labeled "Art. VII" and "Art. IV" refer... More

Modern sugar mill, plantation Rosario at Aguacate, Cuba

Modern sugar mill, plantation Rosario at Aguacate, Cuba

H52679 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. Public domain photograph of Cuba, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Where sugar is made from beets, filter presses, Greeley, Colo.

Where sugar is made from beets, filter presses, Greeley, Colo.

H117990 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.W. Kelley. No. 8795. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Weighing, filling and sewing 25 lb. sacks of sugar

Weighing, filling and sewing 25 lb. sacks of sugar

Three employees filling, weighing, and sewing 25 lb. sacks of C and H sugar. National Photo Company Collection. No. 390.

General analytical laboratory, ... Union Sugar Co. Betteravia, Cal.

General analytical laboratory, ... Union Sugar Co. Betteravia, Cal.

National Photo Company Collection. Aston photo no. 727. LC-F82-10209 (glass neg.)

Meeker Sugar Cooperative, Syrup Canning Building, U.S. Highway 71, Lecompte, Rapides Parish, LA

Meeker Sugar Cooperative, Syrup Canning Building, U.S. Highway 71, Lec...

1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Syrup Canning Building is of identical construction type as the mill building. The hip roof culminates in decorative vents. Unprocessed Fiel... More

Taking mould of crystal Domino sugar out of centrifugal machine

Taking mould of crystal Domino sugar out of centrifugal machine

J175345 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Sugar Refining Co., Nov., 15, 1912.

Packing and weighing Crystal Domino sugar

Packing and weighing Crystal Domino sugar

Stereograph shows women packing sugar cubes in boxes on scales. J175337 U.S. Copyright Office.

Vacuum pan room. Boiling and crystallizing sugar. Each vacuum pan holds 125 barrels of sugar

Vacuum pan room. Boiling and crystallizing sugar. Each vacuum pan hold...

Stereograph shows men operating sugar refining machinery. J175338 U.S. Copyright Office.

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their farms in a few years. Location: Sterling, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2115

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3996. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their farms in a few years. Location: Sterling, Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet...

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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

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

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: Fort Collins, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 3015

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet w...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4046. Hine no. 4047. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

[Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their farms in a few years].  Location: [Sterling, Colorado] / [Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15]

[Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the bee...

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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

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

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

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...

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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

[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. 21/15]

[Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, p...

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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

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: Fort Collins, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 3015

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet w...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4046. 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. ...

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

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

Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent to the home shown in 3950. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3953. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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...

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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. 25/15.

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

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The summer quarters of a beet worker's family on a Colorado farm near Starling. See also 3953. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

The summer quarters of a beet worker's family on a Colorado farm near ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3950. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

This is the Day Nursery in the beet fields. Babies have to amuse themselves under the direction of those who are too small to work. Ordway, Colorado. Location: Ordway, Colorado

This is the Day Nursery in the beet fields. Babies have to amuse thems...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3936. No date recorded on caption card; estimate based on cards for photos with neighboring numbers, taken ... 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

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg."  Location: Fort Collins, Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet w...

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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...

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(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

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: [Fort Collins, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15]

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet ...

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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. 30/15].  Location: [Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine.

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

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Conrad Helmut's two girls, 6 and 8 yrs. old, pulling beets, near Sterling, Colo. The ground was hard and the little ones tugged away at the beets steadily. There are three smaller children left alone in the shack at the far end of the field. Father said he will clear about $200 this season, -two parents and these two children. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine. Oct. 21/15.

Conrad Helmut's two girls, 6 and 8 yrs. old, pulling beets, near Sterl...

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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. 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

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

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. 22/15.

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

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Jo Wohn, ten-year-old topper in beet field near Sterling, Colorado. He works from 6 A.M. to 6:30 P.M., with about half an hour for lunch. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 22/15.

Jo Wohn, ten-year-old topper in beet field near Sterling, Colorado. He...

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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

The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, "We have to get done."  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine. Oct. 22/15.

The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near St...

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[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.] Loc...

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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. 3939. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford vicinity, Colorado

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Co...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3934. 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. 3938. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: [Fort Collins, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15]

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet ...

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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...

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

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

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: [Fort Collins, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15]

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet ...

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Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, working on farm near Chilton. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Chilton vicinity, Wisconsin

Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, work...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3952. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: Fort Collins, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 3015

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet w...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4046. Hine no. 4048. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Two new shacks, near Sterling, in which beet workers live. Most of these are old and dilapidated, dirty and crowded. 9 persons live in one of these, 4 in the other. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

Two new shacks, near Sterling, in which beet workers live. Most of the...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4030. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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...

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

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

Ten-year-old Mollie Schuman left alone at the shack with all these babies and the adults far off in the field, out of sight. Mollie tops and piles too. Nine persons live in this one-room shack, 10 x 14 feet, and still it is neat. Near Sterling, Oct 23/15.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.

Ten-year-old Mollie Schuman left alone at the shack with all these bab...

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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. 2215. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado

Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg rec...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4013. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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. 22/15.

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

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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...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4015. Hine no. 4016. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3930. 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3940. The "c" in "city" is not capitalized in the caption card text, but appears to be in the handwritten l... More

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford vicinity, Colorado

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Co...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3934. Hine no. 3935. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... 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. 22/15.

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

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Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, four work. Another family with them, 2 adults. Working 50 acres of beets. Farm near Sterling. Oct. 23/15.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.

Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Sc...

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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 Neb[raska] 8 yrs. ago. They work hard and continuously. See also photos 4033-4 and 5. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine Oct. 22/15.

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

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Luft family, farm near Sterling. Mother, 9 yr. old Amelia, and 12 yr. old Mary working while father hauls the beets to factory. "Amelia she not work all time, she wash dishes and tend baby." 7 children. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2315

Luft family, farm near Sterling. Mother, 9 yr. old Amelia, and 12 yr. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4032. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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