Sujet

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and..., 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_066

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,1Mo (1,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,3cm / 4960 x 3810 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California countryside harvest crop crops agriculture field fields people male library work job man men hat farming vegetables vegetable economics country hats farm box guy occupation clothes photography dress crates crate rustic picker pickers poor poverty harvesting boxes carrot carrots farmland location jeans century textiles profession fabric trousers cloth clothing thirties textile concept depression negative recession denim APPAREL B&W Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W workwear 1930s farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression rural American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer rural life TGN working photograph united states young man young men Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell clothing & dress fashion & clothing Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc