Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
The Frakes. PIcking Cotton, Lawton Oklahoma, 1916.
LOC Caption: Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old
Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick;
he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11
years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday,
earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40
pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over
200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48
while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10
acres now. "We move about a good deal" mother said. Location: Comanche
County, Oklahoma. October 11, 1916
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