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Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine. – Vintage Wall Art

Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine., 1916 August 16. — historic photograph
Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine., 1916 August 16.. Historic photograph from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine.

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Boys work a horse team through a wheat field near Long Grove in Hardin County, Kentucky, in this photograph Lewis W. Hine made on August 16, 1916. Hine documented child labor for the National Child Labor Committee, which used images like this one to show how farm work pulled children out of school. The caption notes that children were kept from classes for this kind of labor, a common arrangement in rural districts where the school calendar bent around planting and harvest. The picture captures how horse-drawn plowing in the wheat country relied on young workers.

Created / published1916 August 16.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4437. Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district."
SubjectsBoys. Agricultural laborers. Grain industry. Wheat. Plowing. Horse teams. Croplands.United States--Kentucky--Hardin County--Long Grove.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,112 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116553

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