18 results containing "United States--Texas--West."
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Home of family of "Renters." 9 members, near West. Everything run down. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3657 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00232 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Parents own the farm of eighty acres. Near West. Will get ten bales of cotton besides other things. Father and mother and some hired hands work. Farm well kept up. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3658 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00233 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Part of a family of Louis Benkendorfer a Bohemian farmer who owns this farm of eighty acres near West. Will get twenty bales of cotton and other crops too. The five year old picks fifteen pounds; ten year old three hundred. The 12 year old girl and other pick, (not in photo). Farm well kept up. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3659 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00234 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Another Benkendorfer farm near West. Owned by father and well kept up. Mandy, six years old, picks twenty-five pounds a day. Sophie, nine years old picks ninety pounds a day. Seven in family. Frugal Bohemians. Contrast these owned farms with those of the renters. It is estimated that over half of the farms around here are rented. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3660 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00235 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Girard farm, near West. A well-to-do French family. Farm well-kept. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3661 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00236 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Valley Cotton Mill, West Texas. Their family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister fifteen years old. Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay ...
1913 November. | 1 photographic print.
1 negative | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3639 [P&P] LC-H5- 3639 | LC-DIG-nclc-02865 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, West, Tex. Their Family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister (fifteen years old). Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay ...
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3640 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02866 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Fourteen year old spinner in Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3641 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02867 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3642 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02868 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Group of workers in cotton mill at West. Two of them are under legal age. One is twelve and one is fourteen according to their Family Record. Much illiteracy here. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3643 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02869 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Group of workers in cotton mill at West. Two of them are under legal age. One is twelve and one is fourteen according to their Family Record. Much illiteracy here. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3644 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02870 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near West. Will raise twenty bales of cotton this year. These are all members of family. The five year old picks cotton some. The seven year old picks one hundred pounds a day. The nine year old picks about a hundred pounds. The eleven year old two hundred pounds, thirteen year old two hundred ...
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3645 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00225 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7475, v. 1, no. 3646 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-00226 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West. One Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record. Another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve year old was under legal age according to one of the boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under ...
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3652 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02871 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. One, Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record, another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve years old was under legal age according to one of the other boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to ...
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3653 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02872 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Fourteen year old spinner in a[?] Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3654 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02873 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (two of them under legal age) work regularly in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill. Charlie is thirteen years old. Family Record said he was born March 12, 1900. Mattie is fourteen years old. Family Record says born November 14, 1898. Both of them have been working in a cotton mill at ...
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3655 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02874 (color digital file from b&w original print) -
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Charlie Lott a thirteen year old doffer in cotton mill at West. His Family Record says born March 12, 1900. Has been working for a year in the mill at Laurel, Miss. Came here recently and was put to work at once although he was in bad shape physically. Maybe malaria, maybe hookworm. Location: West, Texas.
1913 November. | 1 photographic print. | Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
LOT 7479, v. 6, no. 3656 [P&P] | LC-DIG-nclc-02875 (color digital file from b&w original print)