Title

Street meeting at night...outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO) talks to mixed crowd. The strike failed].

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_076

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,1Mb (1,3Mb) / 16,5in x 12,5in / 4960 x 3744 (300dpi)

Keywords

California agriculture people male library work employment job man men farming meeting politics economics night worker country agricultural trade guy occupation listening poor poverty political strike union location century organisation profession packing thirties concept depression recession time of day B&W Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression political event workers American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer industrial action TGN trade union working conditions photograph united states industrial relations trade unionism CIO Congressional Library Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta Congress of Industrial Organizations UCAPAWA United Cannery and Allied Workers of America