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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California county (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States ...

Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California county (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States ...

Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California county (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States ...

A black and white photo of a farm field, Salinas, California. Young lettuce

California State Employment Service office. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. This office is 500 yards from potato pickers camp. This office made 2,452 individual placements to growers in five weeks (season of 1938). General caption number 63-1

Crates of lettuce for shipment. Canyon County, Idaho

A couple of people standing in front of a fruit stand, Vegetable market, San Diego, California

Contra Costa County, California. Stock ranch and plowed field

Freight car at potato shed. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California County (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States ...

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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california monterey county agriculture croplands the miriam and ira d wallach division of art prints and photographs photography collection farm security administration photographs california county carlot shipments salinas valley large scale carlots forty five percent united states farm security administration sponsor lange dorothea photographer ultra high resolution high resolution farm security administration great depression farming classic photography art photography new york public library
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01/02/1939 - 28/02/1939
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New York Public Library
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label_outline Explore Salinas Valley, Large Scale, Croplands

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton for one dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers [Near Leland, Miss.]

A black and white photo of a man in a field, Mexican carrot worker, Edinburg, Texas

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. Gang labor. Harvests on contract by the crate. On these large ranches immediately adjacent to the border, Mexican pickers cross daily into the United States to work

Blowing dust in the Oklahoma Panhandle

An old black and white photo of a tractor, Threshing machine. Canyon County, Idaho

Banana Tree. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

Cocoanut [Coconut] trees showing fruit. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

Field horses at noon. Malheur County, Oregon

WPA (Work Projects Administration) work on playground on southside of Chicago, Illinois

High school showing part of Federal Art Project mural decoration. Fullerton, California

Separating goats to be shown from these which will wait until later, ranch of rehabilitation borrower in Kimble County, Texas

A.W. Batcher placing trap for muskrats through hole in ice of slough. North of Dickens, Iowa. Note trapper's tools on sled and the muskrat house

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california monterey county agriculture croplands the miriam and ira d wallach division of art prints and photographs photography collection farm security administration photographs california county carlot shipments salinas valley large scale carlots forty five percent united states farm security administration sponsor lange dorothea photographer ultra high resolution high resolution farm security administration great depression farming classic photography art photography new york public library