Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go to Pretty Run School, Division 2, Clark Co., Ky., but Roland and Bush, 14 years old have not started yet--about 3 weeks after it opened. Father rents this farm of 160 acres. Bush is also topping. Location: Clark Co.--Winchester, Kentucky [graphic] /
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
still image
Photographic prints. gmgpc
1916 August 5.
eng
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Agriculture.
Hine no. 4392.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Boys.
Agricultural laborers.
Tobacco industry.
Croplands.
United States Clark County Winchester.
National Child Labor Committee collection
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