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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle

About this photograph

Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. From the records of 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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A young girl sits astride a horse and herds cattle.

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Twelve year old Sarah Crutcher sits astride a horse and herds cattle for her father, S.O. Crutcher, in Lawton, Oklahoma. The photographer wrote, “She was out of school (#49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for her father, a prosperous farmer. She said: ‘I didn’t like it either.’ She is doing well in school. Is in Grade 8.”