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Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton pickers. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman County, Texas

Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman Count...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman County, Texas

Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman Count...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing in a field of cotton, possibly related to: Cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

A couple of men standing in a field of cotton, possibly related to: Co...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A black and white photo of a group of people in a cotton field, possibly related to: Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

A black and white photo of a group of people in a cotton field, possib...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, possibly related to: Cotton pickers being paid off, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, possibly related to: Cot...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Cabins of colored sharecroppers and plantation buildings seen across the cotton fields. Note church. Near England, Arkansas

Cabins of colored sharecroppers and plantation buildings seen across t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Backyard of Negro tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. Delta

Backyard of Negro tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. ...

Might be Clarksdale, Miss., Nov. 1939. Compare to USF35-151 and LC-USF35-159. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 11671-8. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FS... More

Cotton pickers at close of day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers at close of day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Other title from Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1988, p. 86. Title and... 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

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

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister eighteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres near Houston. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3596. Apparent discrepancy with caption for #3597 that refers to a sister who is thirteen years old. Credit... More

Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See #3598. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3600. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

A black and white photo of two men in a cotton field, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A black and white photo of two men in a cotton field, Cotton pickers, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister eighteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres near Houston. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3596. Apparent discrepancy with caption for #3597 that refers to a sister who is thirteen years old. Credit... More

A couple of people standing in a field of cotton, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A couple of people standing in a field of cotton, Cotton pickers, Pula...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picking cotton in a great plantation in North Carolina, U.S.A.

Picking cotton in a great plantation in North Carolina, U.S.A.

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
Weighing in cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Weighing in cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers wanted. - A drawing of a man standing next to a sign

Cotton pickers wanted. - A drawing of a man standing next to a sign

Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton Plantation, Rome, Ga. Collection of Georgia Sterescope Cards

Cotton Plantation, Rome, Ga. Collection of Georgia Sterescope Cards

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of women standing next to each other in a field, Cotton pickers. Pulaski County, Arkansas

A couple of women standing next to each other in a field, Cotton picke...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A group of men standing next to each other, Cotton pickers, Pulaski Co...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picking cotton. North Carolina Stereoscope Card.

Picking cotton. North Carolina Stereoscope Card.

North Carolina stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker w... More

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith, five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie" six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven years old, boy, picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy.  Location: Bells, Texas.

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"We'se done all dis's morning'," -Picking cotton on a Mississippi plantation.

"We'se done all dis's morning'," -Picking cotton on a Mississippi plan...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly and seven year old who picks fifty pounds a day. They live in emigrant wagons. Moving about from farm to farm.  Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

6-year old Jewel Walker. See 4564 and 4565. Location: Comanche County--Geronimo, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

6-year old Jewel Walker. See 4564 and 4565. Location: Comanche County-...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4567. Specific location within Comanche County based on caption for #4564. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawnee. Children go to Pioneer School, 7 miles northwest of Shawnee (see photo of same) Father said: "Both the girls can hoe the cotton as well as any grown-up." Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma

Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawne...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4590. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." See 4560. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4561. Hine no. 4562. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Cotton on porch of sharecropper's home. Maria plantation, Arkansas

Cotton on porch of sharecropper's home. Maria plantation, Arkansas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Weighing in cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Weighing in cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Member of cooperative association, overseer of cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Member of cooperative association, overseer of cotton pickers, Lake Di...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of two young girls, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of two young girls, Arkansas. Farmers during G...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton pickers' strike

Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton picke...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man standing in front of a car with a laptop, possibly related to: Used car lot, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Big sales go on after cotton picking season to get the money the cotton pickers have made. Many of the pickers buy new or used cars with their cotton money

A man standing in front of a car with a laptop, possibly related to: U...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

An old car parked next to a war sale sign, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

An old car parked next to a war sale sign, Mississippi. Farmers during...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of women standing next to each other in a field, possibly related to: Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A couple of women standing next to each other in a field, possibly rel...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A group of men standing next to each other, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A group of men standing next to each other, Cotton pickers, Pulaski Co...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Checking cotton pickers. He is a resident of the community

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Alton. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas

Alton. See preceding labels e.g., #3551. Location: Bells, Texas

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3553. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Young cotton picker, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored children do not open until January 1st so as not to interfere with cotton picking

Young cotton picker, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored chi...

Other title from Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1988, p. 83. Title and... More

A couple of women picking cotton in a field, Cotton picking, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A couple of women picking cotton in a field, Cotton picking, Pulaski C...

Additional information on caption card: Use copy negative in LC-USF331 for this image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Divisio... More

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
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

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, Texas.

Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former worked 12, the latter 8 hours a day.

A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers' lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas

Cotton pickers' lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Member of cooperative association, overseer of cotton pickers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Member of cooperative association, overseer of cotton pickers, Lake Di...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers at end of day's work, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers at end of day's work, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people picking cotton in a field, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A group of people picking cotton in a field, Cotton pickers, Pulaski C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people picking cotton in a field, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A group of people picking cotton in a field, Cotton pickers, Pulaski C...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas

Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie" six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven years old, picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy.  Location: Bells, Texas.

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. Location: McKinney vicinity, Texas

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3630. "Negative destroyed." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 14 of his cotton for rent, and 13 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County--Geronimo, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4564. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres now. "We move about a good deal" mother said. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old W...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4574. Names of children are underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and ... More

Weighing in and loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Weighing in and loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Great Depression....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cabins of colored sharecroppers and plantation buildings seen across the cotton fields. Note church. Near England, Arkansas

Cabins of colored sharecroppers and plantation buildings seen across t...

Additional information on caption card: See mount [i.e. print caption] for further information. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictur... More

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's w...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A car is parked in front of a war sale sign, possibly related to: Used car lot, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Big sales go on after cotton picking season to get the money the cotton pickers have made. Many of the pickers buy new or used cars with their cotton money

A car is parked in front of a war sale sign, possibly related to: Used...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss

Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss

Might be Clarksdale, Miss., Nov. 1939. Compare to USF35-151 and LC-USF35-159. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 11671-8. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FS... More

Used car lot, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Big sales go on after cotton picking season to get the money the cotton pickers have made. Many of the pickers buy new or used cars with their cotton money

Used car lot, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Big sales go...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of people in a field, possibly related to: Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A black and white photo of people in a field, possibly related to: Cot...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, Arkansas. Farmers durin...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie" six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven years old, picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy. Location: Bells, Texas

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3550. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day,...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4593. Hine no. 4596. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Cotton picking, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Cotton picking, Pula...

Additional information on caption card: Use copy negative in LC-USF331 for this image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Divisio... More

A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
View of African American workers in a cotton field near Atlanta.

View of African American workers in a cotton field near Atlanta.

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
A hot time in the old town - Public domain sheet music scan
A 7-year-old cotton picker. African-American experience

A 7-year-old cotton picker. African-American experience

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton field, Georgia. - A group of people picking cotton in a field

Cotton field, Georgia. - A group of people picking cotton in a field

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, California. American River camp

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked, and the pickers refused to enter the fields

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Plantation scene with pickers at work in Georgia.

Plantation scene with pickers at work in Georgia.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

View of African American workers in a cotton field near Atlanta.

View of African American workers in a cotton field near Atlanta.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men sitting next to each other, Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

A couple of men sitting next to each other, Cotton pickers, Pulaski Co...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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