Agriculture

Photograph of young men using a horse to plow a vegetable patch, Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y., or Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y. Used in a Children's Aid Society annual report.

Photos used in Children's Aid Society annual reports featuring boys doing farm work at Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y., and Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of men harvesting sheaves of grain, Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y., or Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photographs of routine farm activities, Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y., and Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of three boys working in a field of what looks like rhubarb, Bowdoin Farm School and Camp, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of a young man plowing a field with two horses, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of a young man guiding a plow behind two horses, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of a young man driving a tractor in a field, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y. "Leveling field" is written at the bottom of the photograph.

Photograph of a young man plowing a field with two horses, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of a boy plowing a field with two horses, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y. "Plowing" is written at the bottom of the photograph.

Boy planting corn in a field with two horses, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y. "Planting corn" is written at the bottom of the photograph.

Photograph of a boy plowing a field with two horses, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y. "Plowing" is written at the bottom of the photograph.

Collage of nine photographs of boys at Bowdoin Farm School. The photographs depict fields, a farmhouse, feeding and milking cows, chickens, plowing a field, brushing a horse, and playing music by a piano.

Photographs of boys and young men plowing fields, milking cows, planting crops, and completing other farm work, Bowdoin Farm School, New Hamburgh, N.Y.

Photograph of two boys hoeing a field of an unidentified crop, Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y.

Photograph of a boy in a field of crops holding the handles of a hand plow, Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y.

Photographs of boys harvesting hay and working in fields at Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y.

Photographs of boys working at Brace Farm School, Valhalla, N.Y.

Brace Farm School, in Valhalla N.Y., operated 1894-1928 with the goal of exposing boys and young men to farm work, to ease the transition to farm life they would experience after subsequent placement by the Emigration/Placing-Out Program. Bowdoin Farm School, in New Hamburg N.Y., began operating in 1929 and provided a more extensive farm training program to prepare young men for employment on farms.