Swift's Bog,Falmouth vicinity,Massachusetts,Berry Pickers,Lewis Wickes Hine

Title: Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a day. Carrie Maderyos, 618 Water Street, New Bedford, said 12 years - second year picking. The group expects to be picking here four weeks more which will cause loss of New Bedford schooling at least 6 weeks. (See photos of them picking next day). Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1911 September.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Agriculture.
Hine no. 2554.
Subjects:
Children.
Berry pickers.
Cranberries.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
School attendance.
United States--Massachusetts--Falmouth - Swift's Bog.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004003213/PP/
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