Callie Campbell: “No, I don’t like it very much.”

“No, I don’t like it very much.”

– Callie Campbell, who was 11 years old and picking cotton, 75 to 125 pounds of a day in Potawotamie County, Oklahoma, in 1916. She would tote 50 pounds of it when her sack got full.

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Notes

Read a life quote from Anne Frank.

Sources

• Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. “No, I don’t like it very much.” Lewis W. Hine. See . See W.H. Swift Report.Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018678456/>.