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Cotton Industry
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Ruth. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas.
Alton. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas.
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.
5-year old Harold Walker. See 4564 and 4565. Location: Comanche County--Geronimo, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.
Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.
Fred Hill, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds of cotton a day. See 4580. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.
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." See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.