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Bean Pickers
"Dickie Nash (left), 14, from Cromwell, Oklahoma, picking beans on the John Grenz place near Jefferson in Linn County.
John Grenz, Jr. is with him. Dickie batches and lives in a tent on the place. Picked 204 pounds in one day."
John Grenz, Jr. is with him. Dickie batches and lives in a tent on the place. Picked 204 pounds in one day."
Ernst Family at Horst Hop Ranch
Frank Ernst (second left) and his wife (fourth left), with their family working on the Horst Hop Ranch near Independence. He is a carpenter; she is a nurse; they are vacationing. Kids are Johnny (left), 11; Alice Marie (light shirt), 16; Mary Ann…
Japanese American workers hoeing beets
About 450 Japanese from relocation centers were used in Malheur County. They worked mostly for Japanese farmers, though these were working in the Dale Garrison beet field.
Native Americans working pea viner
Some Indians were used in the pea vining operations. These are working on the C. C. Curl farm in Umatilla County, Oregon.
Potato pickers
Each picker stays on his own row until finished, carrying a supply of empty sacks fastened to a picking belt.
Camp dispensary
Mrs. Dorothy Burleson, Walla Walla nurse at Athena and Milton-Freewater farm labor camps, treating a Mexican National in a trailer dispensary at the Athena camp.
Directing the crews
Mrs. Merril Hart, retired farmer's wife, speaks Spanish to help direct the Mexican work crews.
Guitar playing
In the evening musical instruments come out and typical Spanish tunes fill the air.
Mail call
Returning to camp after the day's work the Mexicans go first to the "mail wall" where letters from home are posted.