Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts. – Vintage Print
![Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts., 9 1911 — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/61b6475da9b4-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.
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Two sisters, Camille, age seven, and Justine Carmo, age nine, stand at work in the Eldridge Bog near Rochester, Massachusetts. The record notes that the older girl picked about four pails a day, and that the younger one was picking too. Cranberries were harvested by hand in the autumn, and the crop was closely tied to the Thanksgiving table that the gallery's board refers to. Photographs like this one, taken in 1911, were part of the National Child Labor Committee's effort to document children working on farms, bogs and in factories.
| Created / published | 9 1911 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 5,000 × 3,448 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 13 |
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