Herschel Bonham cultivating peas on a farm
About this photograph
Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. Records from the United States National Child Labor Committee
- Date created
- April 1917
- Location
- Lawton, Oklahoma
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2009. Terms of use
- Source
- Original image housed by Library of Congress
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- Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills: The photographs of Lewis Hine show the lives and work of children in North Carolina's textile mill villages in the first decades of the twentieth century. (Page 8)
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Herschel Bonham, wearing a long sleeved shirt and overalls, can be seen plowing behind a light colored horse in this photograph from Lawton, Oklahoma in the spring of 1917. He is cultivating peas on a farm. The photographer wrote that the eleven-year-old boy “belongs to a cotton club in school. Father says he can pick 200 pounds of cotton a day.”
