A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former worked 12, the latter 8 hours a day.
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Title
A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former worked 12, the latter 8 hours a day.
Collection
The welfare of children in cotton-growing areas of Texas
Names
United States. Children's Bureau (Author)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1924
Place: Washington
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc 362.7-U (United States. Children's Bureau. Welfare of children in cotton-growing areas of Texas)
Subjects
Child labor -- Texas
African American children
Child labor
Cotton Pickers -- United States
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Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR6227389-B
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11674666
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 899388c0-c608-012f-f718-58d385a7bc34
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1924
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former worked 12, the latter 8 hours a day." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1924. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/899388c0-c608-012f-f718-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1924). A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former worked 12, the latter 8 hours a day. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/899388c0-c608-012f-f718-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "A 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister picking cotton; the former worked 12, the latter 8 hours a day." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/899388c0-c608-012f-f718-58d385a7bc34
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