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Picking worms from plants, Belmont girls farm (LOC)

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  • skillful north said:
    Must be the original pesticide!
  • Smurphy Pix said:
    This one matches the other, reading "No. 1 5/17/11" in the upper corner. It's reversed.

Pickers in a peach orchard, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)

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  • Quick Prose said:
    The ladders are NEW!!! I grew up in this part of the country and never saw a new ladder before. Probably used the same ladders in the 50's and 60's that were in these pictures. Probably still using them?

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Antonio Martín said:
    Me parece una fantástica foto que documenta una época ... PRECIOSA Saludos cordiales
  • Ann Longmore-Etheridge said:
    It could as easily been 1840 as 1940 in this picture. Not much had changed for the African American.
  • martiniano757@yahoo.com said:
    They wonderful pictures, the last time I pick cotton was in 1965, I spend all of my youth, and my teens years picking cotton, I have a picture taken in1950 of my oldest brother on top of cotton, I'm writing a book of my cotton days, I thing this part of our history, of the Mexican, American cotton pickers, not to much is know about us, from the early forties to the middle of the sixties, those were our golden years, than the cotton machine, kind took over, and the Vietnam War, because it took most our young men to War. I was looking at the cotton sacks, our were made different, we had a four inch strap to protect our shoulder, a wire going half way around the mouth of sack, this way it alway stay open, making much easier to throw the cotton, back inside the sack without looking back. I just made my first cotton, made out of duck Canvas, it nine feet long. Thanks again for all the beauiful pictures, Martin Chapa, El Milero