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Near Santa Maria, California. Large-scale pea fields. These peas must be handpicked by gangs of laborers for fresh table use. Frozen food process is not used in marketing California peas, although it may be introduced. Frozen peas in southern New Jersey and peas for canning in Wisconsin are machine-harvested

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Near Santa Maria, California. Large-scale pea fields. These peas must be handpicked by gangs of laborers for fresh table use. Frozen food process is not used in marketing California peas, although it may be introduced. Frozen peas in southern New Jersey and peas for canning in Wisconsin are machine-harvested

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Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1939

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Contributors

Lange, Dorothea, photographer

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Location

Santa Maria, 34.95303, -120.43572

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Library of Congress

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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