Sujet

Large scale, commercial agriculture, Salinas Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

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. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern market throughout the year.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_261

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,5Mo (2,6Mo) / 39,7cm x 42,0cm / 4689 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California countryside agriculture library farming commerce commercial vegetables vegetable economics country farm photography rustic location century lettuce lettuces thirties concept depression negative recession arable B&W furrow Library of Congress United States of America furrows black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural American agribusiness America USA rural life TGN photograph landscape united states Regionalism 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