"Benkendorfer farm near West, Texas. 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." 1913.
Lewis Hines' documentary photographs in the South and other areas of the country are considered pivotal to the implementation of child-labor laws in the US.
- Lewis Hine
- Girls in Cotton Field, Texas, 1913
- silver gelatin
- Subject Matter: documentary, child, children, southern, texas
- Collections: Documentary Photography: 19th and 20th century, Picturing the South: Photographs of the South or by Southern Photographers
