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| Lillie Merrick with her 4 children: (left to right), Cyril, Pauline, John, George, Seaford, DE, 1910 |
Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station.
Cyral (in baby cart) is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. At times Cyral would rest his little head
on his arm and fall asleep for a few minutes and then wake up, commencing all over to hull berries. This is an extreme case
- by no means typical and while it was found in this investigation that children 3, 4, 5 yrs. were accustomed to start out
before sun-up to pick berries, we have not found many cases such as this. Location: Seaford, Delaware, 1910.
I have contacted several descendants, who were astonished by the photo.
I will be conducting an interview soon with a man who was very close to all the persons in the photo. More later.
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