Daily Photo — “Former Slave with Horn, 1939”
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April 1939. “Old Negro [former slave] with horn with which slaves were called; Near Marshall, Texas.” Additional title: [An African American man sitting in doorway and holding a horn, April 1939.] Gelatin Silver print by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Daily Photo — “Cotton on the Roadside, 1937”
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June 1937. “Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle.” Photo by Dorothea Lange.
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Daily Photo — “Austin Statesman, 1913”
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October 1913. Austin, Texas. “Sunday morning. Paul Luna, 9-year-old newsie who is up at 4 a.m. Sundays.” Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Daily Photo — “Sells After School, 1913”
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October 1913. San Antonio, Texas. “Lionel Perry, 9-year-old newsboy. Starts out at 5 a.m. usually, 4 a.m. on Sundays. Sells after school.” Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee.
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Daily Photo — “Forced Labor Prison Camp, 1930s”
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Young prisoner chained to a pick-axe in a 1930s forced labor prison camp in Texas, c. 1930s.
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