1912 Child Labor, Cotton Picking, Bells, Texas

This photograph shows: "All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a
little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking.
Father was plowing. Edith five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie" six years old,
girl, picks all day. Alton, seven years old, picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks
seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like
to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy. Location: Bells, Texas."
Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1912.
Shows Girl picking cotton.