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Migrant Workers Collection (page 6)

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, US99, between Tulare and Fresno, 1939

Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, US99, between Tulare and Fresno, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Between Tulare and Fresno. Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, on U.S. 99. Started out from Fresno that morning for work cotton chopping

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Father and son planting potatoes, outskirts of Salinas, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Father and son planting potatoes, outskirts of Salinas, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outskirts of Salinas, California. Father and son planting potatoes. These people are lettuce workers, migrants from Southwest

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field, Monterey County, California, 1939

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field, Monterey County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California

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

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

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Possibly: Large scale agriculture, near Meloland, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and... near Meloland, Imperial Valley

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

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Large scale agriculture, near Meloland, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Camped on the flat, near Holtville, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camped on the flat, near Holtville, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camped on the flat. Family with five children, left their home in Texas in September 1938. They picked their way across the country in Texas and Arizona cotton

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Filipino lettuce field laborer, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Filipino lettuce field laborer, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino lettuce field laborer. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Filipino field gang in lettuce, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Filipino field gang in lettuce, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino field gang in lettuce. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. Filipinos work in lettuce but not in peas

Background imageMigrant Workers Collection: Large-scale industrialized agriculture, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Large-scale industrialized agriculture, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Large-scale industrialized agriculture. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory workers packing peas for market on edge of pea field



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