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Press photographs of Latino laborers and field workers in California

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Press photographs of Latino laborers and field workers in California

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Description: A group of eight press photographs of chiefly Latino agricultural workers, their children, and their living conditions in California, dating between 1958 and 1989. There is one photograph taken near Las Vegas, Nevada in 1959 showing children fetching polluted water from an irrigation ditch; it is captioned "children of jobless migrant workers." The unrelated photographs are credited to the Associated Press, the New York Times, and others, and were published in various newspapers, with detailed captions attached. Subjects include workers' shacks in Mendota, Central Valley; a field worker in Salinas carrying a short-handled hoe, which was later banned in California; tomato picking; a female picker; and a white woman, identified as Mrs. Henry Pennington, comforting her disheveled child in a dusty, rural area.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1958-1989.
Call number: photPF 26031
Provenance: Purchased from Max Rambod Inc., July 2023.

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chiefly 18 x 23 cm

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