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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

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 intersection of Arrowhead and Old Buena Vista Roads, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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 House, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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 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

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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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. 3613. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

B.F. Forrester, Sr. Farmstead, Main House, 285 feet north of Boz Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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

"Starship Pegasus," a failed futuristic restaurant and gift shop in in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

"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

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3608. 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. 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3610. 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 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 o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3612. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

The United Daughters of the Confederacy's monument of a Rebel soldier was dedicated in front of the Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas, and still stands there

The United Daughters of the Confederacy's monument of a Rebel soldier ...

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

J. M. Dunaway Farmstead, Main House, 30 feet west of the J. M. Dunaway Farmstead Entrance Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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

Bales Barn, 0.41 miles southwest of Bearden Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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

B.F. Forrester, Sr. Farmstead, Main House, 285 feet north of Boz Road, Waxahachie, Ellis County, TX

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

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