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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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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.

Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly a...

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

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

Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly a...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3627. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Parents own the farm of eighty acres. Near West. Will get ten bales of cotton besides other things. Father and mother and some hired hands work. Farm well kept up. Location: West, Texas

Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Pare...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3658. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Parents own the farm of eighty acres. Near West. Will get ten bales of cotton besides other things. Father and mother and some hired hands work. Farm well kept up.  Location: West, Texas.

Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Pare...

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Part of a family of Louis Benkendorfer a Bohemian farmer who owns this farm of eighty acres near West. Will get twenty bales of cotton and other crops too. The five year old picks fifteen pounds; ten year old three hundred. The 12 year old girl and other pick, (not in photo). Farm well kept up.  Location: West, Texas.

Part of a family of Louis Benkendorfer a Bohemian farmer who owns this...

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