Lewis Hine: Beets Photographs
48 Lewis Hine photographs of beets, from the Library of Congress archive.
Group blocking out the sugar beets on a Wisconsin farm. See…
1915
Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a…
1915
Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers…
1915
Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers…
1915
A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen…
1915
[Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near…
1915
Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter,…
1915
Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near…
1915
The summer quarters of a beet worker's family on a Colorado…
1915
Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near…
1915
(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets.…
1915
Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her…
1915
Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in…
1915
"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that…
1915
[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years,…
1915
![[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic]…, Colorado, 1915](/static/images/2018677899_thumb.webp)
[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful…
1915
![[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic]…, Colorado, 1915](/static/images/2018677900_thumb.webp)
[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful…
1915
[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years,…
1915
Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years,…
1915
![Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic]…, Colorado, 1915](/static/images/2018677898_thumb.webp)
Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful…
1915
All these children were working in the sugar beets for…
1915
All these children were working in the sugar beets for…
1915
[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the…
1915
[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the…
1915
Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar…
1915
[Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and…
1915
Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and…
1915
The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling,…
1915
[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years,…
1915
Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years,…
1915
Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a…
1915
[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children…
1915
[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children…
1915
Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of…
1915
[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping…
1915
[Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve…
1915
[Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve…
1915
Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve…
1915
12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping…
1915
Two families were represented here, topping beets on farm…
1915
![[Part of Walker family pulling and piling beets. See label 4018.] …, Colorado, 1915](/static/images/2018674076_thumb.webp)
[Part of Walker family pulling and piling beets. See label…
1915
[Seven-year-old Maggie Wohn pulls and piles the beets. See…
1915
[Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in…
1915
Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and…
1915
[Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13…
1915
Wohn family, near Sterling Colo. See photos and labels…
1915
Seven-year-old Maggie Wohn pulls and piles the beets. See…
1915
![Missing. Pulling beets. Location: [Colorado?], 1915](/static/images/2018677914_thumb.webp)
Missing. Pulling beets. Location: [Colorado?]
1915