Sujet

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour. These young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and to accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California.

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A49_180

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

174,5Mo (6,8Mo) / 75,0cm x 58,3cm / 8861 x 6885 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature California agriculture field fields people male library work employment job man men farming fruit vegetables vegetable plant plants economics worker country farm guy occupation Mexico picking migration migrating protecting photography growing picker pickers poor poverty Mexican perspective farmland location century profession melon melons thirties concept negative recession B&W furrow cantaloupe weeding Library of Congress migrant United States of America furrows black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand migrant worker farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression workers migrants American cultivation America USA agricultural worker displacement farm labourer TGN photograph united states 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 United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative rockmelon