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Cotton Picker
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Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California
Cotton picker on her way to the cotton field. Kern migrant camp, California
Migrant cotton picker on way to field. Kern migrant camp, California
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California
Mexican cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton pickers. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas
Cotton pickers' lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas
Alton. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas.
Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas.
Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See #3598. Location: Houston vicinity, 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.
Lloyd McMahan seven year old cotton picker on a farm near McKinney. "School hasn't begun yet." Usually it does not begin until picking is over. The whole family picks - nine members. Home conditions are good. Location: McKinney 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.