Kirk and wife, Arkansas tie cutters, the boy and girl parents of triplets – Antique Print
(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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Kirk and wife, Arkansas tie cutters, the boy and girl parents of triplets comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Kirk and wife, Arkansas tie cutters, the boy and girl parents of triplets
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Identified on its caption card as the parents of triplets, the Kirk couple were tie cutters in Arkansas, a trade that supplied the crossties railroads needed by the thousand. Workers hewed timber by hand, often in remote camps, and were typically paid by the piece, so families like this one had little income and few options. Pictures of this kind, dated around 1907, were frequently made during the period's growing public attention to rural poverty and child labor. The caption card's details are unverified, so the family's own circumstances are best read as a general glimpse of life in the timber trade of that time.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Poor--1907; Children and poverty--1907; BI family; Triplets; Family groups--1907; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,237 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144870 |
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