
That does not look like how it is supposed to work.

Aerial view of the new Los Angeles City Hall in 1928. Source: USC Digital Library.

Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." (Oklahoma, 1916. Photo and caption by Lewis W. Hine).

Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper. Transylvania, Louisiana. Jan. 1939. Photo taken by: Russel Lee.
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