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Italian immigrants
Pemberton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 1910
Notes: "Nick Cechini, 10 years old, been picking for three years, and Joe Cechini, 12 years old, been picking five years.... This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia, and people will stay here two weeks more." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00039.
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Italian immigrants
Browns Mills, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 1910
Notes: "Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St. Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summers. Minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more." Photo & Notes: Lewis W. Hine. Digital ID: 05296.
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Italian immigrants
Seaford, Delaware, U.S.A.
Date: May 28, 1910
Notes: "Pete Trombetta, 10 years of age, 6th season of work. Salvatore Trombetta, 14 years of age. 8th season of work, picks 200 quarts of berries a day. Mary Trombetta, 11 years of age, 6th season, picks 100 quarts berries per day on Johnson's Far, Seaford, Del. These children start picking at about 5:30 A.M. and continue until 6 P.M. in the evening. The padrone estimated that the family of 6 can make from $9 to $12 per day picking 12 to 13 hours." Photo & Notes: Lewis W. Hine. Digital ID: 00099.
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Italian immigrants
Pemberton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 29, 1910
Notes: "Pete, the Padrone, and family and neighbors. Girl tending baby in sun. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes, Hine. Digital ID: 00086.
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Italian immigrants
Pemberton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 29, 1910
Notes: "The De Marco family. Forsyteh's Bog. Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00082.
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Italian immigrants
Rochester Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: September 1911
Notes: "Abbe, said 10 yeas old who picks 10 pails a day. Also two young Italian illiterates." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine No. 00135.
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Italian immigrants
Browns Mills, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 1910
Notes: "Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to "pick, pick." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00062.
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Pemberton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: Sept. 29, 1910
Notes: "General view of Forsythe's Bog, with Padrone." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00077.
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Italian immigrants
Browns Mills, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 28, 1910
Notes: "Some of the padrones on Whites Bog, Browns Hills, N.J. The chief padrone (in straw hat) is Gus Denato (see report of E.F. Brown). Witness, E.F. Brown." Photo & Notes: Lewis W. Hine. Digital ID: 05306.
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Italian immigrants
Pemberton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date: September 1910
Notes: "Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Macro family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. X 11 ft. X 51/2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at hand and bushes used as such, gave forth offensive odors." Photo & Notes: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 00074.
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