Sujet

Potato pickers, near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Near Shafter, California. Potatoes are dug by machines and strewn on the ground as the digger goes down the rows. The picker puts the potatoes into sacks suspended from their waist between their knees. The sacks are loaded onto the field trucks and taken to the sheds for sorting and grading. Potato pickers earned forty cents an hour in 1937.

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A49_368

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,9Mo (2,1Mo) / 35,0cm x 36,4cm / 4133 x 4301 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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