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TitleBoys getting paid for picking string beans circa 1930s
Date Created1930-1939
DescriptionAfter picking string beans, boys bring the baskets full of beans to be weighed so that they may be paid.
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TitleChildren pick string beans circa 1930s.
Date Created1930-1939
DescriptionChildren pick string beans on an industrialized truck farm circa 1930s.
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TitleBoy helps his father pick tomatoes circa 1930s.
Date Created1930-1939
Description"Salvatore, aged 12, helping his father pick tomatoes at 5 cents a basket. He picked 30 baskets from 7AM to 4PM and expects to quit at 6PM - a 10 hour day." Caption from back of photo.
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TitleYoung girl harvesting crops in the rain circa 1930s
Date Created1930-1939
DescriptionYoung children stoop while picking produce in the rain.
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TitleMigrant camp under construction, ca. 1950
Date Created1950
DescriptionA new migrant camp under construction circa 1950.
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TitleChild farm laborers on truck circa 1930s.
Date Created1930-1939
DescriptionChildren get on a truck after having picked lima beans and peppers during the morning.
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TitleDale Wright working as a migrant laborer
Date Created1961
Description"Staff writer Dale Wright shoulders a basket of tomatoes which he has just picked near Hightstown, N.J., in his six-month survey of the squalid life of a migrant farm worker." Caption from booklet...
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TitleHome of Monmouth County farm worker circa 1961
Date Created1961
Description"Dwelling which appeared in news photo of Oct. 23, 1961 in N.Y. World Telegram and Sun, Article by Mr. Dale Wright. Located on farm of Mr. Gilbert Magee, Route 520, Marlboro Twp., Monmouth County, N....
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TitleMigrant workers being interviewed by staff writer Dale Wright ca. 1961.
Date Created1961
Description"Evon Washington (left) and James Taylor, migrant workers from Florida, tell their stories of being cheated to staff writer Dale Wright." Caption from booklet about migrant workers, The Forgotten...
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TitleDale Wright displaying the fruits of his work as a migrant laborer
Date Created1961
DescriptionDale Wright, writer for the World-Telegram and Sun, displays a basket of tomatoes he picked near Hightstown, N.J. Wright worked as a migrant laborer to investigate the work and living conditions of...