Sujet

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, near Meloland, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites 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. Near Meloland, Imperial Valley.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A52_060

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,6Mo (2,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,0cm / 4960 x 3776 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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 photography labour crates crate rustic picker pickers poor poverty harvesting carrot carrots farmland location century profession thirties concept depression negative 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 nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc