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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton, helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children in this orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton, helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty 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. 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.

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01/01/1913
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Waxahachie (Tex.) ,  32.38667, -96.84833
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Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother, and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas

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boys men orphans cotton pickers croplands texas waxahachie photographic prints waxahachie tex scene cotton field cotton field baptist orphanage baptist orphanage seven years school hours school hours children girls united states history library of congress