Texas Historic photos, documents, and people

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Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (near Denison). "She's a good steady picker. Works all day long," her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. Location: Bells,

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Eleven year old newsie who has been selling for three years. He gets up at 2:30 A.M. Sundays, and at 5:00 A.M. school days. Makes about $1.25 a day. Norval Sharp. Photo taken early Sunday morning. Loc

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Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (Near Denison). "She's a good steady picker. Works all day long," her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. Location: Bells,

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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 vicini

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Thirteen year old boy. Exposed to all kinds of weather picking out slabs from chute with a heavy moving chain that carries up the wood. He gets $5.00 a week. Miller - Link Lumber Co. Location: Orange,

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With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civ

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Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the

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Young cotton growing in mechanized field. Hall County, Texas. Anyone who inspects one of these giant mechanized farms must realize that it foreshadows a fundamental change in American agriculture

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Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Molten copper being poured from the refinng furnace. It is run through a bed of coke to prevent oxidation before the copper is cast into molds