Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

2-896-867 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds. Strikers organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations union (CIO) demand 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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Creator
  1. Dorothea Lange, attributed to: American: Photographer, artist, photojournalist

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America United States California

  1. 37 00 00 N , 119 00 00 W

Category Hierarchy

Trade & Industry Occupations

Trade & Industry Agriculture & Fishing

Society & Culture Issues & Causes

People Other

Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4960x3762
File Size : 18,223kb


Aliases

  1. 2017770988
  1. 1010001841
  1. 2-896-867
  1. 2017770988
  1. 2896867

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