“5-year-old Helen and her stepsisters ‘hulling’ strawberries at Johnson’s Hulling Station, Seaford, Del. Helen is an orphan, who one month after death of her widowed mother, was adopted by the Hope family of Seaford, Delaware. This is her second season at Johnson’s Hulling Station. On the day of the investigation, she started working at 6 a.m., and at 6 p.m. the same day Helen was still hulling strawberries.” –May 1910
Attribution: Photo by Lewis Hine, courtesy of the Library of Congress.