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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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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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TitleYoung college students working on the corn line
Date Created1945-1946
DescriptionWhite officials in the South often prevented black agricultural laborers from migrating as seasonal laborers, and the agreement between Local 56, the STFU, and Seabrook Farms was described by Jack...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from Mary Dyckman to NJ Dept of Health, August 11, 1944
Date Created1944-08-11
DescriptionA letter from Mary Dyckman, President of the New Jersey Consumers League, to Dr. Julius Levy, a state health official, details sanitary conditions at the camps and notes racial discrimination in the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleAerial view of Seabrook Farms
Date Created1950
DescriptionAerial view of Seabrook Farms.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleGelston Village after tornado
Date Created1954
DescriptionGelston Village behind Chiari's store after a tornado flattened several prefab houses. The village consisted of hip-roofed 16'x16' pre-fabricated huts for migrant laborers.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitlePicker and farmhand who lives by himself in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm.
Date Created1942-07
DescriptionIn 1943, 516 Jamaican men employed by Seabrook lived in the Big Oaks Farm Security Administration camp. Guestworkers entered the US under government contracts that prohibited them from changing jobs.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleJohn Nykun posing with 'Little Tokio' sign, Great Meadows, New Jersey, April 13, 1944.
Date Created1944-04-13
DescriptionParoled internees had to contend with hostile receptions in many places. White residents of Great Meadows, NJ, including the soldier shown here, protested farmer George Kowalick's decision to hire...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleTrial Leave with Train Fare Advanced
Date Created1950
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleWho built New Brunswick : the history of the International Hod Carriers Union Local 156.
Date Issued2002