Content description:
One photo of a cotton field with a farmer standing guard with a gun watching over four workers bent over in parallel rows picking cotton with long cloth bags trailing behind them. There is also one worker in the distance behind the farmer. On a piece of paper glued to the back of the photo is this information: "15324 Associated Press Photo, From New York, Caution: Use Credit. (EDS: This is one of a series of five pictures) COTTON PICKING TIME IN SOUTH TEXAS EDINBURG, TEX.---- Tenant owner Jose Lopex, a gun in his hands, watches over his cottom pickers to assure them of no interference from union organizers while they work. These Mexicans are picking some of the first cottom to be harvested in the United States this year. Associated Press Photo, 7-5-37, THD525PEDT JFL." The words" Agridulture Labor" is handwritten in red ink on this label. There is also a stamp in purple ink on the back of the photo partially obscured by the piece of paper glued to the back with the date "JUL 7, 1937.