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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. Imperial Valley has developed large-scale farming and migratory labor in the most extreme form

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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. Imperial Valley has developed large-scale farming and migratory labor in the most extreme form

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1938

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Contributors

Lange, Dorothea, photographer

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Location

california

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html