United States Historic photos, documents, and people

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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 /

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

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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. Hi

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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

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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

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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 /

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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

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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 /

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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