5-year-old Harold Walker picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day, Oklahoma, 1916.
What is the little girl being pulled by her dad looking at?
Not a photoshopped image and not a time traveler's cell phone. It is the dark slide from the photographers 4x5 film holder. Remove the dark slide, take photo and you have to put the dark slide back in the film holder before you can take another photo with the film from the other side of the film holder.
Title: Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburgh County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Unable to get work on Work Projects [i.e. Projects] Administration and refused county relief in county of fifteen years residence because of temporary residence in another county after his illness.
Creator(s): Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 June.
Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-018227-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-USZ62-130176 (b&w film copy neg. from file print) LC-DIG-fsa-8b38702 (digital file from original neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs.