Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee.

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis Wickes Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma. Date Created/Published: 1916 October 16. LOC original medium: 1 photographic print. Pic of child labour by Lewis Hine.


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