The End of the day for cotton laborers meant waiting to be paid [see pictures from 1938 Arkansas]

After a grueling day picking cotton, at the New Deal, Lake Dick Project in Arkansas, day laborers were rewarded with their pay each evening for their work. The counting and recording took time so the laborers had to wait time to receive payment.

Many rested, while others stood and watched the monetary transactions as these photographs taken by Russell Lee in September and October 1938 reveal.

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day’s work. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasCotton pickers resting while waiting to be paid. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers resting while waiting to be paid3. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work2. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work3. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work4. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work5. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work6. Lake Dick Project, ArkansasDay laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work8. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

day laborers wait to be paid2

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Paying off the day laborers was his job5

Emptying the sacks of cotton onto truck, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas went on into the late night in 1938

Emptying sacks of cotton onto truck, Lake Dick Project2, ArkansasEmptying sacks of cotton onto truck3, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

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