Farmhands Collection (#16)

Pickers in a peach orchard, Delta County, Colo. 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Pickers in a peach orchard, Delta County, Colorado

Crates of peaches being gathered from pickers to be hauled to... Delta County, Colo. 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Crates of peaches being gathered from pickers to be hauled to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colorado

Fazenda House in Brazil; Rio De Janeiro and the Organ Mountains, 1875. Creator: Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff
Fazenda House in Brazil; Rio De Janeiro and the Organ Mountains, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] Belle Sauvage Works.London E.C

Printed Textile, c. 1938. Creator: Pearl Gibbo
Printed Textile, c. 1938

Tapestry, c. 1938. Creator: Pearl Gibbo
Tapestry, c. 1938

One of the eight cooperating farmers drive loaded wagons to the silo, Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939
One of the eight cooperating farmers drive loaded wagons to the silo. Yamhill County, Oregon

Cooperating farmers load wagons with corn... Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cooperating farmers load wagons with corn. One of the eight cooperating farmers drive loaded wagons to the silo. Yamhill County, Oregon

Seven of the eight farmers shown with their coop... West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Seven of the eight farmers shown with their cooperatively owned ensilage cutter on the Miller farm, where they are working filling the silo. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon

Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Kern County, California, 1939
Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar

Family from Oklahoma, during cotton strike, near Shafter, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Pea pickers, end of the day, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers. End of the day. Near Calipatria. California

Pea pickers coming into the weigh master, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers coming into the weigh master. Near Calipatria, California

Weighting scales at edge of bean field, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Weighting scales at edge of bean field. Near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon

Cooperating farmers with wagonload of corn... Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cooperating farmers with wagonload of corn. Feeding corn from the wagon through the ensilage cutter from which it is blown thru the pipe into the silo. Yamhill County, Oregon

Pea fields, end of the day, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
End of the day. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

End of the day, pea pickers, near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
End of the day. Near Calipatria, California. Pea pickers

Beanfield - weigh scales, pickers, and sacked beans at edge of... near West Stayton, Oregon, 1939
Beanfield. Weigh scales, pickers, and sacked beans at edge of field. Near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon

Bean pickers barbering each other, near West Staten, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bean pickers barbering each other. Near West Staten, Marion County, Oregon

Hop farmers sons, washing for noon meal on back porch, Independence, Polk County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oregon. Independence, Polk County. Hop farmers sons, washing for noon meal on back porch. They supervise the migratory workers in the field and tend to the weighing of hops

Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama, 1935 or 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Crossroads store. Sprott, Alabama. [U.S post office, with signs advertising Arcadian nitrate of soda; Coca-Cola; Granger rough cut tobacco; Pan-Am motor oil and orange gasoline]

Gangs of single men, pea pickers, transported to fields... Stanislaus County, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Gangs of single men, pea pickers, transported to fields by contractors. Stanislaus County, California. [Sign: J.E. McDonald & Charlie Green - Licensed Farm Labor Contractors - 406 W

Squatter camp before season opens, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp before season opens. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

One of the forty potato camps in open field... Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Squatter camp in potato town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Applicants at registration tent on opening day... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Applicants at registration tent on opening day of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

California State Employment Service office, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California State Employment Service office. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. This office is 500 yards from potato pickers camp

One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Manager of mobile unit (FSA), on day camp opened... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Manager of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration) on day camp opened, in registration tent. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Town pump of Tulelake at railroad yard, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Town pump of Tulelake at railroad yard. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Over 1500 people depend on hauled water for drinking the year round

Camp of single men, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp of single men. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Potato pickers

Four young migratory potato pickers... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Four young migratory potato pickers, travelling together, come into camp to ask manager whether they would be eligible for a hot bath

On main street of potato town during harvest season, Merrill, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On main street of potato town during harvest season. Merrill, Oregon. [Klamath potatoes for sale. Sgns: Stolt Lodge Spud Cellar ; Welards Soft Drinks on Tap ]

Four young migratory potato pickers, travelling together... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
Four young migratory potato pickers, travelling together, come into camp to ask manager whether they would be eligible for a hot bath

Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment... ten miles south of Merrill, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment, cold, rainy morning, end of harvesting season. Potatoes have been stored in this growers cellar. Ten miles south of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Migratory field workers at 5 a. m. waiting in the carrot field to hold a place to work, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field workers at 5 a.m. waiting in the carrot field to hold a place to work, which starts at 8 a.m

In FSA migratory labor camp, Sinclair Ranch, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mother, father and eleven children, originally from Oklahoma, where he had been a tenant farmer

Tying carrots in Imperial Valley, near Meloland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tying carrots in Imperial Valley. Near Meloland, California

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 ]

On U. S. 99. in Kern County on the Tehachapi Ridge, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On U.S. 99. in Kern County on the Tehachapi Ridge. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial Valley and the San Joaquin Valley over this ridge

Eight related persons... in search of employment as pea pickers, on US80, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939
Eight related persons just arriving in this roadster from Texas. In search of employment as pea pickers. On U.S. 80. Imperial Valley, California

Migratory family arriving at growers camp for pickers, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family arriving at growers camp for pickers. Car bears Wyoming license, the probable state of origin of the family. Imperial Valley, California

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

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