Grayson County TXGenWeb

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking.
Father was plowing.
Edith five years, (see photos below) picks all day.
"Hughie" six years old, girl, picks all day.
Alton, seven years old, picks fifty pounds a day.
Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day.
Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old.
The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy.
Location: Bells, Texas.

Source of information : Agriculture Network Information Center

Lewis Hine was a sociologist-turned-photographer
Lewis Hine depicted child labor in Texas in the early twentieth century ..
(an exhibit with his work was shown) ..a few years ago at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.
It had a couple of Hine's photos from Bells TX in it.
...His collection is in the Library of Congress.