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Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Migrants picking beans

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The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Girl pickers showing the contents of their baskets

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The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Two girl pickers (close up)

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Two girl pickers (close up)

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The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. A girl grape picker

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Grape pickers (girls)

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. A girl grape picker

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Girl pickers showing the contents of their baskets

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Xmas baskets for the poor. Washington, D.C., Dec. 24th. Left to right: Lady Lindsey, wife of the British Ambassador, Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Sec. of State, and Mrs. John Glisson, holding her daughter Leis, 5 years old. Lady Lindsey presented the the baskets to the poor at the Salvation Army today in place of Mrs. Roosevelt

An English tea planter on horseback at Gampola rest house

Sunday at "the Ranch" Vintage postcard

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

Outdoor fireplace on which cranberry pickers do their cooking, Burlington County, New Jersey

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Farmers during Great Depression

Vintage electric spotlight at Glenmont, the estate of Thomas and Mina Edison. Thomas Edison purchased this grand estate for his new bride, Mina Miller Edison, in 1886. It is here that the Edisons raised their children and entertained friends, family, and Edison business associates. Located in West Orange, New Jersey

A vintage car passes the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming during the Wyoming State Fair's annual kickoff parade

Lettuce rotting in the field. Canyon County, Idaho. When the price went low at the end of the season, the lettuce was left in the fields; in some places cattle and sheep were turned in to eat it, and in others it will be plowed under

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.

[Boy and girl seated in rustic arbor]

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