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Fields of tobacco with corn in background. South of Louisville, Kentucky

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Lloyd McMahan seven year old cotton picker on a farm near McKinney. "School hasn't begun yet." Usually it does not begin until picking is over. The whole family picks - nine members. Home conditions are good. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

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Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres now. "We move about a good deal" mother said. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

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Cotton bales in a harvested field near Coolidge, Arizona

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Fields of tobacco with corn in background. South of Louisville, Kentucky

Fields of tobacco with corn in background. South of Louisville, Kentucky

Fields of tobacco with corn in background. South of Louisville, Kentucky

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01/01/1940
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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Louisville-Jefferson County, 38.20924, -85.70385
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