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Garage and automobile of small vegetable farmer near Santa Maria, Texas. This farmer said that he found Mexican labor satisfactory. He indicated that the white farmers in this section felt a definite responsibility to the Mexican and saw that he was cared for in bad seasons. He said that two years ago when the vegetable market was off the farmers in this vicinity pitched in and helped feed the Mexicans. He explained that while there was always plenty of fruits and vegetables for the Mexicans that it was impossible for them to subsist on them. They require red beans and corn
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Garage and automobile of small vegetable farmer near Santa Maria, Texas. This farmer said that he found Mexican labor satisfactory. He indicated that the white farmers in this section felt a definite responsibility to the Mexican and saw that he was cared for in bad seasons. He said that two years ago when the vegetable market was off the farmers in this vicinity pitched in and helped feed the Mexicans. He explained that while there was always plenty of fruits and vegetables for the Mexicans that it was impossible for them to subsist on them. They require red beans and corn
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Group of Mexican laborers getting straw for tying carrots near Santa Maria, Texas
Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps
Mexican carrot workers around labor contractor's truck in field near Santa Maria, Texas
Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago. Migrations include ranch land in Texas, cotton and wheat in Texas, cotton and timber in New Mexico, peas and potatoes in Idaho, wheat in Colorado, hops and apples in Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton in Arizona. He wants to buy a little place in Idaho
Garage and automobile of small vegetable farmer near Santa Maria, Texas. This farmer said that he found Mexican labor satisfactory. He indicated that the white farmers in this section felt a definite responsibility to the Mexican and saw that he was cared for in bad seasons. He said that two years ago when the vegetable market was off the farmers in this vicinity pitched in and helped feed the Mexicans. He explained that while there was always plenty of fruits and vegetables for the Mexicans that it was impossible for them to subsist on them. They require red beans and corn
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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Russell grew up in Ottawa, Illinois and went to the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He gave up a position as a chemist to become a painter and used photography as a precursor to his painting, but soon became interested in photography as media. His earliest subjects were Pennsylvanian bootleg mining and the Father Divine cult. In the fall of 1936, during the Great Depression, Lee was hired for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographic documentation project of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He joined a team assembled under Roy Stryker, along with Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein and Walker Evans. Lee created some of the iconic images produced by the FSA, including photographic studies of San Augustine, Texas in 1939, and Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940. Over the spring and summer of 1942, Lee was one of several government photographers to document the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, producing over 600 images of families waiting to be removed and their later life in various detention facilities.