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The house that Jeff built - Public domain  drawing

The house that Jeff built - Public domain drawing

An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system. The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme "The Hous... More

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.  Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner....

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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.

Part of a group of itinerant cotton pickers leaving a farm at which th...

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Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about wight i.e., eight pounds a day, regularly. See #3598. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3599. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.]  Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma].

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag that holds 50 pounds and more before it is emptied. Norma is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds a day. Drags the sack which often holds 50 pounds or more before emptied. Randall is 9 years old; has picked over 100 pounds a day--usually less. He does not carry quite so large a sackful as his sisters.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prai...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Weighing in cotton. Pulaski County, Arkansas

Weighing in cotton. Pulaski County, Arkansas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bringing in cotton for weighing, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Bringing in cotton for weighing, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers ready for day's work, 6:30 a.m., Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers ready for day's work, 6:30 a.m., Pulaski County, Arkans...

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Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Typical view of store and cotton trader in small Arkansas town. This one made in Marianna, Arkansas

Typical view of store and cotton trader in small Arkansas town. This o...

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A group of men riding on the back of a truck. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of men riding on the back of a truck. Great Depression FSA pho...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers being paid off, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers being paid off, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Members of Lake Dick Project paying off cotton pickers, Arkansas

Members of Lake Dick Project paying off cotton pickers, Arkansas

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Cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

An old black and white photo of a couple of men standing in front of a car, possibly related to: Used car lot, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Big sales go on after cotton picking season to get the money the cotton pickers have made. Many of the pickers buy new or used cars with their cotton money

An old black and white photo of a couple of men standing in front of a...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. 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

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3614. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

A man standing on top of a wooden wagon, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A man standing on top of a wooden wagon, Cotton pickers, Pulaski Count...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Whiteley's Original Hidden Hand Co.

Whiteley's Original Hidden Hand Co.

"Copyright secured." Caption: Sunset pastimes at Hurricane Hall. Created by "Jno. B. Jeffery, Pr. & Eng., Chicago." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

In the cotton fields of Georgia

In the cotton fields of Georgia

African Americans picking cotton. 45841 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 935. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll, Publisher

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." See 4560. Lewis W. Hine, photo.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma.

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said:...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3546. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie," six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven year old boy picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy.  Location: Bells, Texas.

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal.]  Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J. P. Daws, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift Report.]  Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma]

[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers. Kaufman County, Texas

Cotton pickers. Kaufman County, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing around a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of people standing around a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cotton pickers resting on bag, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers resting on bag, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Arkansas. Farmers during...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (average) Mother said: "She jess works fer pleasure." See photos 4555 to 4557. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (avera...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4558. Copy neg includes #4557. Reproduction no. LC-USZ62-18104. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints ... More

Young cotton picker, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored children do not open until January 1st so as not to interfere with cotton picking

Young cotton picker, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored chi...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Women and children, Aiken, S.C.

Women and children, Aiken, S.C.

Photograph shows African American women, children, and men cotton pickers at work. Copyright 1907 by O. Newton Cripps, Aiken, S.C.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside near Waxahachie. 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 cotton regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside near Waxahachie. Children come ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag that holds 50 pounds and more before it is emptied. Norma is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds a day. Drags the sack which often holds 50 pounds or more before emptied. Randall is 9 years old; has picked over 100 pounds a day--usually less. He does not carry quite so large a sackful as his sisters.]  Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma]. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Pra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Housing for cotton pickers. South Texas

Housing for cotton pickers. South Texas

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Cotton gin company. West Memphis, Arkansas

Cotton gin company. West Memphis, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cultivating early cotton crop in Crittenden County, Arkansas. The next stage will be "cotton chopping" to cut down the weeds

Cultivating early cotton crop in Crittenden County, Arkansas. The next...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton checkers. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton checkers. San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Along U.S. Highway 99. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Along U.S. Highway 99. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a day. Near Menifee, Arkansas

Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers being paid off, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers being paid off, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care: Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place"

Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern Coun...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3598. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Uncl[e] Tom's cabin - Drawing. Public domain image.

Uncl[e] Tom's cabin - Drawing. Public domain image.

Created by "A.S. Seer's Print." Large pieces missing; part of title missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Land of cotton / E. W. Day, Charlotte N.C. Photos.

Land of cotton / E. W. Day, Charlotte N.C. Photos.

Photographic print showing a group of African American men, women, and children standing in a cotton field, some holding baskets containing cotton.

Edna Smilley, R.D. 1. Eighteen years old and sister seven years old pick seventy-five pounds of cotton a day. "We'd ruther do anything than pick cotton," Edna said. Schools open November 1st.  Location: Denison, Texas.

Edna Smilley, R.D. 1. Eighteen years old and sister seven years old pi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

5-year old Harold Walker. See 4564 and 4565.  Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

5-year old Harold Walker. See 4564 and 4565. Location: Comanche Count...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

King Cotton, gelatin silver print,  Panoramic Photograph

King Cotton, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

H103681 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; December 16, 1907. Printed on image: "'Cirkut' Photo, copyright 1907 by J.C. Coovert, 63 N. Main, Memphis."

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alton. See preceding labels [e.g., #3551].  Location: Bells, Texas.

Alton. See preceding labels [e.g., #3551]. Location: Bells, Texas.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picking cotton scene - images Black History Month

Picking cotton scene - images Black History Month

Photograph shows African American cotton pickers at work. Copyright 1902 by O. Newton Cripps, Aiken, S.C.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister thirteen 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.  Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in half a day, according to testimony of father and brother. Father owns farm. Hazel goes to Prairie Lee School. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in h...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4572. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Com...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton picking near New Bern, N. C.

Cotton picking near New Bern, N. C.

Photograph shows four African American women picking cotton in a field.

Checking in cotton, Little Rock, Arkansas

Checking in cotton, Little Rock, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's w...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing on the back of a truck. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of men standing on the back of a truck. Great Depression FSA p...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of people standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA ph...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers, day laborers, waiting to be paid at end of day's work.  Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, day laborers, waiting to be paid at end of day's work....

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a tr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field. Attributed to Lakin based on image published in Stereo World, March/April 2012, p. 7 Gift; G.W. Richmond; Nov. 1927 (DLC/PP-1927:47158)

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Cotton. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows African American men and boy cotton pickers in field. Taken 9/15/97, M. Z. L. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga. Myrtis Morgan Fuller.

The white slave by Bartley Campbell.

The white slave by Bartley Campbell.

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Another Benkendorfer farm near West. Owned by father and well kept up. Mandy, six years old, picks twenty-five pounds a day. Sophie, nine years old picks ninety pounds a day. Seven in family. Frugal Bohemians. Contrast these owned farms with those of the renters. It is estimated that over half of the farms around here are rented.  Location: West, Texas.

Another Benkendorfer farm near West. Owned by father and well kept up....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawnee. Children go to Pioneer School, 7 miles northwest of Shawnee (see photo of same) Father said: "Both the girls can hoe the cotton as well as any grown-up." Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.  Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

6-year old Jewel Walker. See 4564 and 4565.  Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

6-year old Jewel Walker. See 4564 and 4565. Location: Comanche County...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Weighing in cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Weighing in cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers at 6:30 a.m., Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers at 6:30 a.m., Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Ark...

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Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, Arkansas. Far...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Members of Lake Dick Project paying off cotton pickers, Arkansas

Members of Lake Dick Project paying off cotton pickers, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton pickers being loaded onto truck for transportation to fields, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Cotton pickers being loaded onto truck for transportation to fields, P...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Cotton picking scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, new Drew, Mississippi]

[Cotton picking scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, new ...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. No print found. Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicians in the Lomax Collection.

Weighing in cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Weighing in cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith, five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie" six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven years old, boy, picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy. Location: Bells, Texas

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3551. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." See 4560. Lewis W. Hine, photo. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said:...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4561. Not clear whether "photo" after Hine's name was original to the card or added later by a staff member... More

In the domain of King Cotton, near Dallas, Texas

In the domain of King Cotton, near Dallas, Texas

African Americans at work in cotton field, overseer on horseback in background. H80451 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8398. Copyright by E.W. Kelley.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. 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.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come...

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Land of cotton / E. W. Day, Charlotte N.C. Photos.

Land of cotton / E. W. Day, Charlotte N.C. Photos.

Photographic print showing a group of African American men, women, and children standing in a cotton field, some holding baskets containing cotton.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. 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.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come...

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[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.

[6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in this Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in this Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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