Gilbert, Arizona

Juan Olgin is shown at right letting young John Olgin and Dionescio Sepulveda admire his huge load of baled cotton before delivering it to the buyer. For more than two hundred years, cotton picking was done by human hands. Picking cotton in Gilbert was no different. It was very hard work, and the bolls that held the cotton caused lots of pain, pricking the fingers that pulled the cotton out.

k Hauling Bales of Cotton

k Cotton picking

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