"Renters." Itinerant #Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. #House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old upward pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by #StateUniversity that 300,000 children are thus affected in #Texas alone. See #Hine report #Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises #fiftyacres and they get #abouttwentybales of cotton, this year which is not a good year. Been here one year. #FarmofJ.W.Vaughn. #Route6. Location: #Corsicana, #Texas.

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"Renters." Itinerant #Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. #House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old up pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by #StateUniversity that 300,000 children are thus affected in #Texas alone. See #Hine report #Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises #fiftyacres, and they get #abouttwentybales of cotton this year, which is not a good year. Been here one year. #FarmofJ.W.Vaughn. #Route6. Location: #Corsicana, #Texas.

#Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor

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