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The Milk Booth at the State 4 H Fair at Charleston, W. Va. Location: Charleston, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine. – Historic Photo Reproduction

The Milk Booth at the State 4 H Fair at Charleston, W. Va. Location: Charleston, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., 1921 October. — historic photograph
The Milk Booth at the State 4 H Fair at Charleston, W. Va. Location: Charleston, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., 1921 October.. 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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Set up at the State 4-H Fair in Charleston, West Virginia, in October 1921, this milk booth shows young exhibitors presenting dairy products from their own farm work to fairgoers. Lewis W. Hine made the photograph while working for the National Child Labor Committee, a job that took him across the country to document the lives of children, including many in rural areas. The 4-H movement grew out of early twentieth-century farm youth clubs that taught practical skills such as animal husbandry and food production, and fair exhibits like this one gave those young members a public audience for what they had learned.

Created / published1921 October.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5116. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 96.
SubjectsChildren. 4-H clubs. Fairs. Exhibit booths. Milk. Country life.United States--West Virginia--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,311 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149105

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