This cute photograph shows four children at work, filling a wagon with gravel, while a fifth child sits on the ground nearby and plays with his horse and cart pull-toy. The children seem very engrossed in their work, and ignore the photographer entirely.

This image was taken by well-known photographer Jessie Tarbox, or as she was known by her married name, Jessie Tarbox Beals. Jessie was born in Hamilton Ontario in 1870, and in 1902 took a job as photojournalist with The Buffalo Inquirer. She left the newspaper in 1904 and went to Saint Louis Missouri where she photographed the World’s Fair then in progress. In 1905 she moved to New York City, where she opened her own gallery. In 1917 she separated from her husband and moved to the artsy Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York, where she opened an art gallery. This photograph was taken during that period, probably in Greenwich Village. In 1928 Jessie moved to California, and began photographing homes of the stars for postcards. In 1933 she moved to Chicago, and later returned to Greenwich Village where she died in 1942.