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A woman picking cotton in a field, possibly related to: J.A. Johnson and family, Statesville, North Carolina, Route No. 3, picking cotton. He is a sharecropper, works about ten acres, receives half the cotton, must pay for half the fertilizer. Landlord furnishes stock and tools

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Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

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Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

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

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01/01/1936
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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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. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

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Picking cotton. [Woman resting in the field.]

A Visit to White Oak Cotton Mills, [...] (front card).

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