Title

Loading truck in sugar beet field, near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A54_125

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,5Mb (1,9Mb) / 13,6in x 14,4in / 4086 x 4319 (300dpi)

Keywords

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