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

DOROTHEA LANGE. 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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DOROTHEA LANGE

Title:

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

Caption:

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.

Personalities:

LANGE (18th century) • RUSSELL LEE

Technique/material:

Photograph

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Album / Heritage Art/Heritage Images

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Image size:

4960 x 3833 px | 54.4 MB

Print size:

42.0 x 32.5 cm | 16.5 x 12.8 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

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