Sujet

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar.

Date

1938

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_241

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,3Mo (2,3Mo) / 39,5cm x 42,0cm / 4670 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California agriculture field fields carrying people male library work employment job man men farming economics worker country guy occupation valley geography picking photography poor poverty farmland location heavy century profession thirties sack concept depression negative recession cotton exploitation B&W Library of Congress cotton field United States of America San Joaquin Valley black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand migrant worker farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression workers cotton pickers American America USA agricultural worker cotton picking farm labourer geographical feature TGN photograph cotton picker united states 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 cotton sack field sack