Poster created by U.S. Employment Service
A poster created by the u.S. Employment Service to recruit Mexican and Caribbean agricultural laborers.
Collection WJC-DPCl: Records of domestic Policy Council (Clinton Administration), ca. 1992-1/20-2001. National Archives Identifier;158701046 https://www.archives.gov/files/calendar/know-your-records/handouts-presentations/2021-02-10-hutchins-presentation.pdf?_ga=2.217389392.737175349.1701900751-476159592.1701900751
Sign. FSA ( Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) https://www.loc.gov/item/2017789410/
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
1940 Poem by Jack Bryant ini Firebaugh, AZ
Library of Congress, Classroom Materials, Dust Bowl Migration
String bean harvest, Marion County, Willamette Valley, Oregon
Describes the string bean harvest in Marion County, Oregon. Includes information about the pickers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division https://www.loc.gov/item/2006682430/
United States. Farm Security Administration.
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas. Son was a tenant farmer. "We're bound for Kingfisher (Oklahoma wheat) and Lubbock (Texas cotton). We're not trying to but we'll be in California yet. We're not going back to Arkansas; believe I can better myself"
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) https://www.loc.gov/item/2017770570/
Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017872352/ Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress)
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Guía de las regiones de trabajos agrícolas en los estados del oeste.
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
1 map ; 42 x 27 cm., on sheet 54 x 52 cm. folded to 18 x 9 cm.
Photographs show four agricultural workers, each representing a different ethnic or racial group. Individual image titles: Filipinos working in pole peas; From Texas (white man); Pea picker from Texas (African American man); Future voter and his Mexican father (Mexican man holding his infant child).
No known restrictions on publication. Digital Id = cph 3c37429 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c37429
Part three of four for Poultry Processing Timeline set