Title

Large scale agriculture, near Meloland, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_071

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,2Mb (2,2Mb) / 16,5in x 12,7in / 4960 x 3819 (300dpi)

Keywords

California countryside harvest crop crops agriculture field fields people male library work employment job man men farming vegetables vegetable economics country guy occupation picking seasonal labour crates crate rustic picker pickers poor poverty harvesting carrot carrots farmland location century profession thirties concept depression recession exploitation B&W Library of Congress manual labour 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 rural American agribusiness America USA agricultural worker farm labourer farming methods rural life TGN working photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library piece work piecework 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 still image Safety film negatives. gmgpc