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| Warren Frakes, Comanche County, Oklahoma, October 11, 1916. Photo by Lewis Hine. |
6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday
"An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. Location: Comanche County,
Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine, October 11, 1916.
Shortly after Elizabeth Winthrop's article about the search for Addie Card
appeared in Smithsonian Magazine last September, a woman named Sally Kapp wrote a letter to the editor about finding
her great uncle and his family in the Lewis Hine collection posted on the Library of Congress website. That great uncle is
Warren Frakes, the boy above. I was able to contact Ms. Kapp, and
she kindly provided plenty of information about Warren and his family. Here is some of it.
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| Frakes family (left to right): Warren (6), Velma (14), Clara (11), mother Lula (40), Alma (4), 1916 |
Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old
Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag.
She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for
another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day.
Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres
now. "We move about a good deal" mother said. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine, 1916.
Warren's story, as told by his sister
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