Document for Today, September 20th:

"Young pickers on Swift�s Bog. All working. Falmouth, Mass., 09/20/1911"

Taken by investigative photographer Lewis Hine on September 20, 1911, this photograph is one of a series of black-and-white prints given to the Children’s Bureau by the National Child Labor Committee. The almost five hundred photographs represent a fraction of the approximately 5,000 photographs Hine took for the committee to document working and living conditions for children.



More Lewis Hine Photos in Picturing the Century

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