Category:Beet harvesters in the United States

Media in category "Beet harvesters in the United States"

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  12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. 'The boys can LOC nclc.00361.jpg 5,000 × 3,529; 2.06 MB
  
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  12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. 'The boys can LOC nclc.05585.jpg 5,000 × 3,627; 2.16 MB
  
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  Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful (sic) topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing (sic) and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the LOC nclc.00332.jpg 5,000 × 3,591; 2.3 MB
  
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  Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, LOC nclc.00352.jpg 5,000 × 3,631; 2.44 MB
  
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  Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job for such a child. LOC nclc.00347.jpg 5,000 × 3,618; 2.34 MB
  
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  This shows a typical beet-topping knife, with the dangerous hook on the end that is used to pick up the beet. This is the ten-year-old Walker boy, (see label 4018) belonging to a well-to-do LOC nclc.00356.jpg 5,000 × 3,548; 1.57 MB
  
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  Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said- 'The children can thin the beets better than grown LOC nclc.00254.jpg 5,000 × 3,470; 2.06 MB
  
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  Two families were represented here, topping beets on farm near Ft. Collins, Colo. Out of 12 workers, 7 were children, aged 7- 8- 9- 11- 12- 13- 14- years. This is an exceptional group. LOC nclc.05586.jpg 5,000 × 3,540; 1.97 MB
  
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  Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. LOC cph.3a25270.jpg 5,000 × 3,569; 2.3 MB