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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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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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TitleTwo approved privies circa 1950.
Date Created1950
Description"Other types of approved privies." Caption from back of photo.
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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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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...
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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...
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TitleI remember bean-picking at Seabrook
AuthorNoguchi, Paul H.
Date Created1963-08-25
DescriptionIn this 'I remember" memoir, Paul Noguchi recalls his work experiences in the bean fields at Seabrook Farms. He worked alongside other Japanese Americans, Estonians, Germans, and Latvians, as well as...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), 1945, 1963
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TitleBureau of Migrant Labor Report
Date Created1961
DescriptionReport prepared by the Bureau of Migrant Labor, a division of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, in 1961.
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TitleCosts and facilities provided Puerto Rican farm workers in New Jersey (A.E. 233)
AuthorAines, Ronald O.
Date Created1959
Description'During the late summer and fall of 1958, a research study of the total cost of Puerto Rican farm workers to New Jersey farmers was carried out by the Department of Agricultural Economics. A large...