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Southern U.S. cotton picking - images Black History Month

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Photograph shows an African Americans cotton pickers at work in a field.

No. 2694.

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01/01/1920
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Two of Dutton ("Dut") Calleb's children watering the mule. Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky

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.

Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother, and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas

6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. See 4574. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma. Lewis W. Hine

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A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

Many drainage ditches have been made and creeks cleaned out and land cleared on the creek bottom land of the farms of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers. Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky

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