Sujet

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers, Kern County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked, and the pickers refused to enter the fields. [Badges: CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and 'Vote No on No.1' (refers to proposed anti-picketing law)].

Date

1938

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_126

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,5Mo (1,8Mo) / 32,5cm x 42,0cm / 3838 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California agriculture people male library work employment job man men farming button buttons politics economics worker country guy occupation photography farmer poor poverty political strike badge location century organisation profession leader thirties concept depression negative recession cotton badges B&W haberdashery Library of Congress election elections United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand migrant worker farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression workers American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer industrial action TGN photograph portrait united states trade unionism CIO Congressional Library Heritage Art 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 Okie Congress of Industrial Organizations