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| Edgar Kitchens, Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 18, 1916. Photo by Lewis Hine. |
Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week for working for the
Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half
day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or
6. Lives in Bowling Green. Location: Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine, August 18, 1916.
There are nine Lewis Hine photos of Edgar on the Library of Congress
website, all of him working on the farm. I located his son, James, and sent him the photos, then interviewed him several weeks
later. He told me that his father had told him many stories about working on the dairy farm as a little boy, but this was
the first time James had seen any photos of his father at that age. On
the next several pages, there are more photos, and my interview with James Kitchens, who still lives in Bowling Green.
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