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 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County–[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.
1916 October 10. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 2, no. 4564 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00599 (color digital file from b&w original print)
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