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TitleMigrant camp under construction, ca. 1950
Date Created1950
DescriptionA new migrant camp under construction circa 1950.
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TitleStorage building that doubles as summer migrant housing circa 1950.
Date Created1946
Description"This is dual-type building. Large door on front make building available for storing farm equipment. Movable partitions turn it into quarters for migrants in summer." Caption from back of photo. Sign...
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TitleWoman standing next to migrant housing structure circa 1950
Date Created1946
Description"Newer cinder block type of migrant housing" Caption from page of photo. Sign in photo reads "State of New Jersey, Dept of Labor, No. 4, 9-17-46"
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TitleDale Wright picking potatoes with other migrant workers
Date Created1961
Description"The potato picker in the foreground is staff writer Dale Wright, too. The experienced pickers behind him gather 70 to 80 such 100-pound bags in a 12 to 14-hour day - and get 5 to 8 cents a bag."...
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TitleMigrant housing at farm camp circa 1950
Date Created1946
Description"Another farm camp frame type." Caption from back of photo. Sign in photo reads: "State of New Jersey, Dept of Labor, No. 6, 9-17-46"
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TitleOlder migrant farm worker housing - circa 1950s
Date Created1950-1959
Description"Older on-the-farm type of housing." Caption from back of photo.
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TitleSleeping quarters of Dale Wright while working as a migrant laborer ca. 1961
Date Created1961
DescriptionDale Wright, writer for the World-Telegram and Sun, worked as a migrant laborer to investigate the work and living conditions of fellow laborers.
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TitleTwo approved privies circa 1950.
Date Created1950
Description"Other types of approved privies." Caption from back of photo.
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TitlePrivy for migrant housing circa 1950
Date Created1950
Description"An approved privy" Caption from back of photo.
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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...