4 H Club,Gradie Walton,Pocahontas County,West Virginia,Lewis Wickes Hine,1921

Title: A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot . , - a [sic] fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1921 October 6.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Children in West Virginia.
Hine no. 5061.
Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 41. The phrase 'the boy has worked hard on' is repeated in the text of the caption card; replaced with ellipses to aid comprehension.
Subjects:
Boys.
Corn.
Farming.
4-H clubs.
Vision disorders.
United States--West Virginia--Pocahontas County.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004004693/PP/
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