United States Historic photos, documents, and people

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Jo Oliphant, R.D. 3, Bowling Green, holding stick for tobacco cutters on father's farm. "I go to school some and am out some." Plano School. Location: Warren County--Bowling Green, Kentucky

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Buckeye School, opened July 3rd, 12 enrolled and 11 present. About 20 belong. Teacher said some out for work. Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky / Lewis

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Rock Spring School which opened September 5th. Census 49, Enrollment of 28, attendance 25. Expect an enrollment of 35. Tobacco is chief cause of absence. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky

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Walnut Grove School. Average attendance 20, out of an enrollment of 32. Absences chiefly due to berries. 51 in Census. Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky /

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Tending the chicks. 16 year old girl. Home of William Olliges, Stithton, Ky. The children go to parochial school in Stithton. Location: Hardin County, Kentucky /

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Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle, 10 years, Zelina, 12 years, Florence, 13 years. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father John Richard. Rents farm. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky /

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Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. /

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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now. Location: Corunna, Michigan

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Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. /