Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersection of Bake...
Significance: The farmstead dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the nation. Although tenant farmers grew much of the cotton in the co... More
Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, Main House, 75 feet northwest of Cu...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate... More
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
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Main House, 140 feet southwest of Curry Ro...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Main House is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more ... More
![Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaW4tdGhlLWNvdHRvbi1maWVsZC1vZi10aGUtYmFwdGlzdC1vcnBoYW5hZ2UtbmVhci13YXhhaGFjaGllLXRoZXNlLWJveXMtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the 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.
Boz Gin Complex, Gin Foundation, 34.5 feet south of Great House Road, ...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the old Boz Gin Complex. The complex was a good example of one of the area farms that produced some of the highest yields of cotton in the nation. Unproc... More
F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, Main House, 100 feet northwest of Old B...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki... More
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, 230 feet southeast of intersection of Curr...
Significance: The farmstead includes a grouping of buildings on a 106-acre tract of land in the J.J. Mallard Survey. The complex is associated with George H. Cunningham (1825-1915) who owned vast amounts of lan... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, Main House, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersec...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the Stiles-Pigg Farmstead which dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the natio... More
Boz Gin Complex, 0.05 miles east of the intersection of Boz and Great ...
Significance: The Boz Gin Scales House is the only extant structure of the old Boz Gin Complex. It is on a small parcel in the William M. Turner Survey and dates to about 1910. The Scales House weighed freshly ... More
![Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed, ten years old picks three hundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred. Adults pick about five hundred pounds, getting $1.00 a hundred. The father rents the farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvaGFyZC13b3JrZXJzLWdyYWR5LWNhcnJvbGwtbmluZS15ZWFyLW9sZC1jb3R0b24tcGlja2VyLWhlLXBpY2tzLXR3by1odW5kcmVkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed, ten years old picks three hundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred. Adults pick about five hundred pounds, getting $1.00 a hundred. The father rents the farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The fou...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3678. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Sparks Farmstead, 0.32 miles southwest of the intersection of Bearden ...
Significance: The farmstead was the site of the Sparks family cotton farm for over nine decades. It is on an 80-acre tract in western Ellis County. The farmstead includes a cluster of buildings which together r... 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 cotton regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtb24tdGhlLWZhcm0tb2Ytc24td2hpdGVzaWRlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS1jaGlsZHJlbi1jb21lLW91dC1oZXJlLWZyb20tMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "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.
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Tenant House, 333 feet northwest of the Ma...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Tenant House is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was mor... More
Main Street in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Exterior detail of the 1897 Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Tex...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, the elaborate, Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse is considered by many to be among the most ... More
Bales Barn, 0.41 miles southwest of Bearden Road, Waxahachie, Ellis Co...
Significance: It is the lone surviving building of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century cotton farm near the rural community of Boz in western Ellis County. The building is on an 81.66-acre parcel in t... More
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, 230 feet southeast of intersection of Curr...
Significance: The farmstead includes a grouping of buildings on a 106-acre tract of land in the J.J. Mallard Survey. The complex is associated with George H. Cunningham (1825-1915) who owned vast amounts of lan... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, Main House, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersec...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the Stiles-Pigg Farmstead which dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the natio... More
F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, Garage, 37 feet northwest of the Main H...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki... More
Phillips House, 0.20 miles southwest of the intersection of Greathouse...
Significance: The farmstead stands on a 1.64-acre parcel in the Joshua Willshire survey in western Ellis County. The house, a front-gabled Craftsman bungalow, and its associated outbuildings are some of the las... More
J. M. Dunaway Farmstead, Main House, 30 feet west of the J. M. Dunaway...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The house is a component of the J.M. Dunaway Farmstead, which is one of the most significant architectural and historic landmarks in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field n... More
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, 230 feet southeast of intersection of Curr...
Significance: The farmstead includes a grouping of buildings on a 106-acre tract of land in the J.J. Mallard Survey. The complex is associated with George H. Cunningham (1825-1915) who owned vast amounts of lan... More
B.F. Forrester, Sr. Farmstead, Main House, 285 feet north of Boz Road,...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Main House is a component of the B.F. Forrester, Sr. Farmstead, which illustrates the legacy of one of the most prominent farming families in the community of Boz. Unproc... More
Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3607. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
![Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvdHdvLWZhbWlsaWVzLXdvcmtpbmctdG9nZXRoZXItb24ta2ltYmFsbC1mYXJtLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS10aGUtZm91ci15ZWFyLTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The fou...
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.
"Starship Pegasus," a failed futuristic restaurant and gift shop in in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Masonic Hall, one of several former Masonic lodges or halls in Waxahac...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A downtown block that includes the old Texas Theater in Waxahachie, Te...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3618. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
![Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaXMtYS1jb3R0b24tZmllbGQtb2YtdGhlLWJhcHRpc3Qtb3JwaGFuYWdlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS10aGVzZS1ib3lzLTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
![Two families working together on Kimball farm, near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvdHdvLWZhbWlsaWVzLXdvcmtpbmctdG9nZXRoZXItb24ta2ltYmFsbC1mYXJtLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS10aGUtZm91ci15ZWFyLTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "Two families working together on Kimball farm, near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Two families working together on Kimball farm, near Waxahachie. The fo...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, Tenant House, 355 feet northwest of...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate... More
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Barn, 228 feet northwest of the Main House...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Barn is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more intere... More
The Ellis County Museum, in an 1899 structure across from the county c...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Boz Gin Complex, Scales House, 27.58 feet south of Great House Road, W...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the old Boz Gin Complex. The complex was a good example of one of the area farms that produced some of the highest yields of cotton in the nation. Unproc... More
F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, Main House, 100 feet northwest of Old B...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki... More
Sparks Farmstead, 0.32 miles southwest of the intersection of Bearden ...
Significance: The farmstead was the site of the Sparks family cotton farm for over nine decades. It is on an 80-acre tract in western Ellis County. The farmstead includes a cluster of buildings which together r... More
![Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaXMtYS1jb3R0b24tZmllbGQtb2YtdGhlLWJhcHRpc3Qtb3JwaGFuYWdlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS10aGVzZS1ib3lzLTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, Main House, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersec...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the Stiles-Pigg Farmstead which dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the natio... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, Barn No. 1, 158 feet northeast of the Main Hous...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the Stiles-Pigg Farmstead which dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the natio... More
Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, Barn, 245 feet northeast of the Mai...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate... More
The Texas Theater in Waxahachie, Texas, a Dallas suburb
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1895 as the Dixie vaudeville theater, it was converted to a movie theater in 1920 and served as such until the late 19... More
Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The 1897 Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas, south of Dallas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, the elaborate, Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse is considered by many to be among the most ... 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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtb24tdGhlLWZhcm0tb2Ytc24td2hpdGVzaWRlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS1jaGlsZHJlbi1jb21lLW91dC1oZXJlLWZyb20tMS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "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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![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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtb24tdGhlLWZhcm0tb2Ytc24td2hpdGVzaWRlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS1jaGlsZHJlbi1jb21lLW91dC1oZXJlLWZyb20tNC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "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...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, 55.5 feet west of the intersection ...
Significance: The farmstead includes a complex of buildings associated with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. The property encompasses land owned by George H. Cunningham, an... More
![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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaW4tdGhlLWNvdHRvbi1maWVsZC1vZi10aGUtYmFwdGlzdC1vcnBoYW5hZ2UtbmVhci13YXhhaGFjaGllLXRoZXNlLWJveXMtMi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaW4tdGhlLWNvdHRvbi1maWVsZC1vZi10aGUtYmFwdGlzdC1vcnBoYW5hZ2UtbmVhci13YXhhaGFjaGllLXRoZXNlLWJveXMtMy02NDAuanBn/40/27/webp "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 a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton, helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children in this orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaW4tYS1jb3R0b24tZmllbGQtb2YtdGhlLWJhcHRpc3Qtb3JwaGFuYWdlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS10aGVzZS1ib3lzLTEwMjQuanBn/40/27/webp "Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton, helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children in this orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, Pole Barn, 30 feet northwest of the Mai...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki... More
Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3615. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
B.F. Forrester, Sr. Farmstead, 0.2 miles northeast of the intersection...
Significance: The farmstead is a rural complex that has remained within the same family for over 20 years. The property, which includes a house, barn, cistern, and a well, illustrates the legacy of one of the m... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersection of Bake...
Significance: The farmstead dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the nation. Although tenant farmers grew much of the cotton in the co... More
Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, 55.5 feet west of the intersection ...
Significance: The farmstead includes a complex of buildings associated with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. The property encompasses land owned by George H. Cunningham, an... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, Barn No. 1, 158 feet northeast of the Main Hous...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the Stiles-Pigg Farmstead which dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the natio... More
Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3677. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, Barn, 130 feet northwest of the Main Ho...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead that dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agriculture-based economy, and it represents the ki... More
City hall in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The 1900 Chaska House, one of dozens of Victorian homes in Waxahachie,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city has so many that it has identified a "gingerbread trail" of such homes. The Chaska House became a bed-and-breakfast inn in 1... More
"Starship Pegasus," a failed futuristic restaurant and gift shop in in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Phillips House, 0.20 miles southwest of the intersection of Greathouse...
Significance: The farmstead stands on a 1.64-acre parcel in the Joshua Willshire survey in western Ellis County. The house, a front-gabled Craftsman bungalow, and its associated outbuildings are some of the las... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersection of Bake...
Significance: The farmstead dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the nation. Although tenant farmers grew much of the cotton in the co... More
Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, Pole Barn, 126 feet northeast of th...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the farmstead and significant for its association with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field note mate... More
Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
B.F. Forrester, Sr. Farmstead, 0.2 miles northeast of the intersection...
Significance: The farmstead is a rural complex that has remained within the same family for over 20 years. The property, which includes a house, barn, cistern, and a well, illustrates the legacy of one of the m... More
![Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed ten years old picks three huundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred pounds. Adults pick about five hundred, getting about $1.00 a hundred. Now the father rents his farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvaGFyZC13b3JrZXJzLWdyYWR5LWNhcnJvbGwtbmluZS15ZWFyLW9sZC1jb3R0b24tcGlja2VyLWhlLXBpY2tzLXR3by1odW5kcmVkLTEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed ten years old picks three huundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred pounds. Adults pick about five hundred, getting about $1.00 a hundred. Now the father rents his farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.")
Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...
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J. M. Dunaway Farmstead, 0.35 miles southeast of the intersection of B...
Significance: The farmstead is one of the most significant architectural and historical landmarks in western Ellis County, and is associated with one of the most prominent pioneers in the region. The buildings ... More
![Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. 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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvZm91ci15ZWFyLW9sZC1jb3R0b24tcGlja2VyLWEtcmVndWxhci13b3JrZXItb24tZmFybS1zY2VuZS1vbi1mYXJtLW9mLXNuLXdoaXRlc2lkZS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. 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.")
Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...
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![Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. 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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvZm91ci15ZWFyLW9sZC1jb3R0b24tcGlja2VyLWEtcmVndWxhci13b3JrZXItb24tZmFybS1zY2VuZS1vbi1mYXJtLW9mLXNuLXdoaXRlc2lkZS0xLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. 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.")
Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...
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J. M. Dunaway Farmstead, Main House, 30 feet west of the J. M. Dunaway...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The house is a component of the J.M. Dunaway Farmstead, which is one of the most significant architectural and historic landmarks in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field n... More
J. M. Dunaway Farmstead, Main House, 30 feet west of the J. M. Dunaway...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The house is a component of the J.M. Dunaway Farmstead, which is one of the most significant architectural and historic landmarks in western Ellis County. Unprocessed Field n... More
Harrison-Herrington Farmstead, 0.7 miles northeast of intersection of ...
Significance: The farmstead is historically associated with a 305.5-acre tract in the Alanson Ferguson Survey in western Ellis County. The farmstead represents the successful operation of a rural Ellis County c... More
Group of workers in Waxahachie Cotton Mill. Small boy apparently under...
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Cunningham-Hight Tenant Farmstead, 55.5 feet west of the intersection ...
Significance: The farmstead includes a complex of buildings associated with early to mid twentieth-century tenant farming in western Ellis County. The property encompasses land owned by George H. Cunningham, an... More
The 1897 Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas, south of Dallas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, the elaborate, Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse is considered by many to be among the most ... More
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Main House, 140 feet southwest of Curry Ro...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Main House is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more ... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersection of Bake...
Significance: The farmstead dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the nation. Although tenant farmers grew much of the cotton in the co... More
The 1897 Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas, south of Dallas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect J. Riely Gordon, the elaborate, Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse is considered by many to be among the most ... More
Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3618. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Boz Gin Complex, Scales House, 27.58 feet south of Great House Road, W...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the old Boz Gin Complex. The complex was a good example of one of the area farms that produced some of the highest yields of cotton in the nation. Unproc... More
Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3609. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
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. 3613. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, Main House, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersec...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: It is a component of the Stiles-Pigg Farmstead which dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the natio... More
![Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in the Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtaW4tdGhlLWNvdHRvbi1maWVsZC1vZi10aGUtYmFwdGlzdC1vcnBoYW5hZ2UtbmVhci13YXhhaGFjaGllLXRoZXNlLWJveXMtMS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in the 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...
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J. M. Dunaway Farmstead, 0.35 miles southeast of the intersection of B...
Significance: The farmstead is one of the most significant architectural and historical landmarks in western Ellis County, and is associated with one of the most prominent pioneers in the region. The buildings ... 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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2NlbmUtb24tdGhlLWZhcm0tb2Ytc24td2hpdGVzaWRlLW5lYXItd2F4YWhhY2hpZS1jaGlsZHJlbi1jb21lLW91dC1oZXJlLWZyb20tMi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "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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Stiles-Pigg Farmstead, 1.7 miles northeast of the intersection of Bake...
Significance: The farmstead dates to the late nineteenth century when Ellis County farms were among the most productive sources of cotton in the nation. Although tenant farmers grew much of the cotton in the co... More
Old truck under an older shed overhang in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Pen...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3609. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3611. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3615. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
F.L. Hawkins Tenant Farmstead, 0.65 miles northeast of the intersectio...
Historical report was missing page number 3 when it was submitted to HABS. Significance: The farmstead dates to the 1920s when cotton cultivation dominated the local, agricultural-based economy, and it represen... More
G. H. Cunningham Farmstead, Garage, 25 feet northwest of the Main Hous...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Garage is a component of the farmstead that was associated with George H. Cunningham, who owned vast amounts of land in Ellis and nearby counties. Cunningham was more inte... More
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