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Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe, United States

Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe, United States

Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe, United States

Capped cantaloupe. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. These people are not migrants, but live on the edge of the ranches and work in peas and melons

Imperial County, United States

Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. These people are not migrants, but live on the edge of the ranches and work in peas and melons

Imperial County, United States

Cabbage harvesting. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Date palms. Coachella Valley, California

Riverside County, United States

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936. Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California

Indio, United States

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants at thirty cents an hour; the young plants are capped with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Filipino boy of a labor gang cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, California

Santa Maria, United States

Dusting cauliflower plants near Santa Maria, California

Santa Maria, United States

Dusting cauliflower plants near Santa Maria, California

Santa Maria, United States

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by National Association of Manufacturers

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by National Association of Manufacturers

Striking longshoremen during the waterfront strike in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, United States

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers

A political problem before the voters of San Francisco, California

San Francisco, United States

Signboards in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, United States

On the highway. Riverside County, California

Riverside County, United States

Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States