5 year old Helen and her stepsisters "hulling" strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station,
Seaford, Delaware. Helen is an orphan, who one month after death of her
widowed mother, was adopted by the Hope family of Seaford, Del.
This is her second season at Johnson's Hulling Station. 1910
6 AM at Post Office Square. Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra
Tobacco Farm. They return about 7 PM. Hartford, Connecticut, 1917
Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's farm at Cannon, Delaware. Alberta is 5 years of age
and has been picking berries since she was 3. 1910
Alma Crosien, three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cora Croslen, of Baltimore. Both work in the Barataria Canning Company. The mother said, "I'm learnin' her the trade." 1911
Group of young cutters in Seacoast sardine factory, going for a swim Sunday morning. They all said they cut their fingers a good deal, "and then the salt makes 'em 'pickle-sores." 1911
Luft family, farm near Sterling. Mother, 9 yr. old Amelia, and 12 yr. old Mary working
while father hauls the beets to factory. Sterling, Colorado, 1915
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Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. Cyral (in baby cart)
is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. 1910
New York tenement, 1910
Nine of these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters
for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days,
and on Saturday from 4 A.M. to early afternoon. 1911
Three families is the rule in these shacks, one room above and one below,
but sometimes four families crowd in. Maryland, 1909
