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Migrant field worker picking cotton in California, 1938 (b/w photo)

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XOS3700875
Image title
Migrant field worker picking cotton in California, 1938 (b/w photo)
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Artist
Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) / American
Location
Private Collection
Medium
photograph
Date
1938 AD (C20th AD)
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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

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