Crop Collection (page 3)

Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch, Near Calipatria, California, 1939
Near Calipatria. Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch newly planted to peas. California

Pea pickers, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers. California

Loading carrots in the field near Holtville, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading carrots in the field near Holtville, California. [Sign: Dorman Farms Co ]

Paymaster on edge of pea fields... near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thirty pounds brought to the scale. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Mexican girl who picks peas for the eastern market, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican girl who picks peas for the eastern market. Imperial Valley, California

Row boss, formerly a pea picker, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Row boss. Formerly a pea picker. Near Calipatria, California

Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair... Near Calipatria, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Calipatria. Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch newly planted to peas. California

Pickers coming into the weigh master, pea field near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pickers coming into the weigh master. Pea field near Calipatria, California

Pea harvest, Large-scale industrialized agriculture... Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea harvest. Large-scale industrialized agriculture on Sinclair Ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Open air food factory - weighing in the peas near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Open air food factory. Weighing in the peas near Calipatria, California

Lunchtime in the pea fields with camp in background, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lunchtime in the field. Camp in background. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

Pea pickers coming into weigh master, Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers coming into weigh master. 500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch, newly planted to peas. Near Calipatria, California

Open air food factory - weighing in peas, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Open air food factory. Weighing in peas. California

Possibly: This family, like others in the area, raise strawberries... near Tenino, Washington
[Untitled, possibly related to: This family, like others in the area, raise strawberries for commercial crop on their small clearings. Shown coming out of the field in the evening

In Sumac Park, Yakima, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Yakima. In Sumac Park. An example of a better type of home occasionally found in these rural shacktowns. General caption number 26

Beanfield showing irrigation, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Beanfield showing irrigation

Possibly: Beanfield showing irrigation, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Beanfield showing irrigation

Drought refugee... Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. " Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there

Drought refugee, Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. " Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there

Hop, transported from field to kiln, near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hops, transported from field to kiln. Near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. [Hops are dried before use as flavouring and as a stability agent in beer]

Labor contractors truck with gang of pea pickers pulled up for gas, Westley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Labor contractors truck with gang of pea pickers pulled up for gas. Gang recruited in Stockton, thirty-one miles away. Westley, California. [Sign: J.E

Wife and child of young sharecropper... Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and child of young sharecropper in cornfield beside house. Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina

Son and grandson of tenant farmer bring in the mules... noon, Granville County, North Carolina, 1939
Noontime. Son and grandson of tenant farmer bring in the mules to water at noon. Granville County, North Carolina

Close up of poor corn, Orange County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Close up of poor corn. Orange County, North Carolina

Fifty-pound bags of onions in storage shed, ready for market, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Fifty-pound bags of onions in storage shed, ready for market. Malheur County, Oregon

Onions drying in sacks in the field, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Onions drying in sacks in the field. Fifteen percent of onion growers in the country are Japanese. 700-800 cars are shipped out every year. Malheur County, Oregon

Onions in sacks are drying, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Onions in sacks are drying. Those on ground are culls. 1000 acres of onions are grown, 700 to 800 cars are shipped annually from Malheur County, Oregon

Topped sugar beets lying in field, near Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Topped sugar beets lying in field. Tossed by hand into truck, then hauled to factory near Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon

Lettuce field near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lettuce field near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. Lettuce is the most speculative crop in Malheur Valley. It yielded two hundredf and thirty nine dollars per acre in 1939

Shocked corn in field of FSA borrower, Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Shocked corn in field of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon. [Corn arranged into shocks or stooks for drying]

Field of corn in shock on farm of FSA borrower, Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Field of corn in shock on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon. [Corn arranged into shocks or stooks for drying]

View of sugar beet field with crew loading truck for Nyssa factory, near Ontario, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
View of sugar beet field with crew loading truck for Nyssa factory. Average yield of beets in excess of sixteen tons per acre in this region. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Filipino boys thinning lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino boys thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Filipino thinning lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Topping sugar beets after lifter has loosened them, near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Topping sugar beets after lifter has loosened them. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Sugar beet lifter in older settlers field... near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sugar beet lifter in older settlers field, which loosens beets and partially lifts them from ground. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading truck in sugar beet field, near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading a truck in a sugar beet field, Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. October 1939. Loading a truck in a sugar beet field

Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall, Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon

Artichoke, Monterey County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Artichoke. Monterey County, California

Gang of Filipino boys thinning lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Gang of Filipino boys thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Pea pickers at work, San Luis Obispo County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers at work. San Luis Obispo County, California

Pea pickers near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers near Calipatria, California

Pea harvest... industrialized agriculture on Sinclair Ranch, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea harvest. Large-scale industrialized agriculture on Sinclair Ranch. Imperial Valley, California

500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch. Newly planted to peas. Near Calipatria, California

Possibly: Large scale agriculture, near Meloland, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and... near Meloland, Imperial Valley, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Southwest pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches

Lunchtime in the field, camp in background, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lunchtime in the field. Camp in background. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping