• Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

Exterior view of wooden building containing twenty-four rooms occupied by cranberry pickers on Forsythe's Bog, with a small child seated in doorway, near Pemberton, New Jersey, United States

September 1910

Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee.
Caption from NCLC caption card: "Exterior of one of the shacks containing 24 rooms. Forsythe's Bog at Stop-the-Mode [sic] near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more".

Gelatin silver print

composition: 9.2 x 11.6 cm mat: 20.3 x 25.4 cm sheet: 12.6 x 17.6 cm

PH1980:1133

numbered - 11 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, top); N.1114 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, centre right); 1114 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, lower right) inscribed - Exterior of one of the shacks / containing 24 rooms. [crossed out] / [crossed out] / near Pemberton, N.J. / 4th wk. of school (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, centre right)

Pemberton; New Jersey; United States;