Near Meloland, Imperial Valley, California, 8b33211
Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, 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
- Date
- 1939-02
- Photographer / author
- Dorothea Lange
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,196 × 7,005 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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"Near Meloland, Imperial Valley, California, 8b33211" (1939-02). Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Near_Meloland,_Imperial_Valley,_California,_8b33211.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 122949.
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