Tobacco

Getting ready to hang tobacco in Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when "suckering." See 4400. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School but it has not opened on account of repairs. Lewis W. Hine. See 4398-9 and 4400. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky.

Porto Puerto Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth

c/o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, ... years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. Location: Woodburn, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine

c/o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, ... years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. Location: Woodburn, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine

Mrs. J.L. Hazel and children stripping tobacco. A very interesting and poorly educated family. See special card and Kentucky report. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine

Mrs. J.L. Hazel and children stripping tobacco. A very interesting and poorly educated family. See special card and Kentucky report. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine

12 yr. old girl "passing" leaves to stringers, tobacco-shed of Hackett farm. 8/2/17. Location: Buckland, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Group of pickers on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Young girls of 11, 12, 13 yrs. String in sheds of Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve. Location: Gildersleeve, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Hayward and Harry Bentley suckering the tobacco. Location: Hebbardsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father, John Richard rents farm near Centre School. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

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 / Lewis W. Hine.

Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father, John Richard rents farm near Centre School. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

c/o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, ... years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. Location: Woodburn, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

c/o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, ... years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. Location: Woodburn, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine

Hauling tobacco. Location: Hebbardsville vicinity, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Young pickers in field, American Sumatra Tobacco Co. We found 34 boys from 9 to 15 years. Location: Weatogue, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Boy 18 years old and father A.W. Galloway, R. 1, loading tobacco. Location: Hebbardsville vicinity, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

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 / Lewis W. Hine.

Field of Burley tobacco on farm of Russell Spears, drying and curing barn in the background, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.