I had never used Flickr before, so the first thing I did was simply browse through all of the beautiful photos. When I took the flickr "tour" I ended up on a page with current events, galleries, the commons, and places. I first visited "the commons" because it offered photography archives, which I thought might be good for a history class. I choose the Smithsonian, then I clicked on the "more" icon at the top of the page which gave me "tags." The list of tags was extensive. I tried several, and as weird as this sounds, I didn't find anything very useful. I went back to "the commons" and tried The U.S. National Archives. I tagged "working conditions." There were several pictures of children working in factories, fields, and mines. I chose one of a five year old girl picking berries. The caption under the picture said she picked berries from sun-up to sun-down, and had been doing this since she was three years old. I thought there was something in her eyes that looked much older and wiser then any five year old I have recently seen.
Hine, Lewis Wickes. "Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's Farm." U.S. National Archives.
May 1910. 2, March, 2013.
The picture info said there was no known copyrights to this picture, but to cite the National Archives for retrieval info. This is what I tried to do based on the information I could piece together from the flickr site. I am also attaching the "incorrect" link that does not have "jpg" because a couple of times I had difficulty getting the above link to work.
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