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Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly and seven year old who picks fifty pounds a day. They live in emigrant wagons. Moving about from farm to farm. Location: McKinney vicinity, Texas

Part of a group of itinerant cotton pickers leaving a farm at which they had finished picking a bale and a half a day. They live in these wagons. Note how many children - all pick except the baby in arms. The four year old picks fifteen pounds a day regularly. Seven year old boy picks fifty pounds a day. Farm near McKinney, Texas. Location: McKinney, Texas.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister eighteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres near Houston. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed ten years old picks three huundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred pounds. Adults pick about five hundred, getting about $1.00 a hundred. Now the father rents his farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

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Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed ten years old picks three huundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred pounds. Adults pick about five hundred, getting about $1.00 a hundred. Now the father rents his farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly and seven year old who picks fifty pounds a day. They live in emigrant wagons. Moving about from farm to farm. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

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01/01/1913
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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McKinney (Tex.) ,  33.19750, -96.61528
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The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

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children migrant agricultural laborers cotton pickers texas mckinney photographic prints mckinney tex year four year cotton picker cotton picker pounds fifteen pounds seven year fifty fifty pounds emigrant wagons emigrant wagons farm library of congress