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Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are trying to make a living off the meagre land near by. Oct. 11, 1921. Location: Sissonville, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Forest Kellison, 4 H Club Member raising a sheep. Examining the quality of the fleece under direction of Harold Willey, Farm Bureau Agent. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Pocahontas County, United States

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut.

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut.

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut.

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut

Only 50% of the pupils are present at School #3, Dist. #3, Ft. Morgan, Colo., October 27/15, over five weeks after school began. Location: Fort Morgan, Colorado / Photo by Hine.

Attendance at the Jeffers School on November 30. 15.15 in attendance and more to come. Location: Loveland vicinity, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

This is the attendance in the Sanders School, District #30 on December 6. Compare photograph 4042 showing attendance on October 25 - 7 weeks after school opened. Sterling vicinity, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

One of the families working the beets on the Bott farm. 6 working. The 8 year old girls sic? piles and tops. Location: Loveland vicinity, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

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

This is the attendance at the Jeffers School, #29 on November 1. 7 present out of the possible 20. Absences due chiefly to beet work. See also 4060. Location: Loveland vicinity, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He is four grades behind, and the teacher says it is on account of the beet work. Location: Fort Collins, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

Public School. Found only 3 of the Baltimore cannery children were attending; 5 others had attended and dropped out. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.

Joe Davis, a ten-year old going home from cannery at 5 P.M. He said he had shucked ten pots since 4 A.M. that day. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.

Joe Zadovitch, 7 years old. Said he has been working some. He was going home from the Pass Christian Cannery at 5 P.M. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.

Central Public School. Only a short walk from the homes of the cannery workers, and yet only 4 children were to be found there. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.

James and Frank Crawford taking milk to town for father, a dairyman. See report. Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky / L.W. Hine.

Harry Dewitt driving a roller on his father's farm. See report. Location: West Point vicinity, Kentucky / L.W. Hine.

Harry Dewitt driving a roller on his father's farm. See report. Location: West Point vicinity, Kentucky. / L.W. Hine.

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky / L.W. Hine.

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky / L.W. Hine.