Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to "bushel man." Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E. F. Brown,. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine. – Historic Photograph Print
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This rare historic image captures Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to "bushel man." Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E. F. Brown,. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine. in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to "bushel man." Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E. F. Brown,. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.
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A girl whose name the caption gives as Tersea carries a peck of cranberries, about 15 pounds, to the "bushel man," the buyer who took the berries by the bushel. Lewis Hine photographed her at Forsythe's Bog in Turkeytown, near Pemberton, New Jersey, on September 29, 1910, and noted that her age was unknown. Hine was then documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee, and autumn cranberry harvests drew families and their children into the bogs. The caption's witness, E. F. Brown, is named as a second source for the scene.
| Created / published | 1910 September |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 4,018 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 5 |
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