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Directing the crews
Mrs. Merril Hart, retired farmer's wife, speaks Spanish to help direct the Mexican work crews.
Two boys with strawberry carriers
Ed Castillo, 12, left, and Kent Bradshaw, 13 both of Salem, walking with strawberry carriers. Ed picked 18 carriers and Kent 16 in one six hour day, at 42 cents per carrier. L.W. Scoggin Farm, Grand Island district of Yamhill County.
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.
Victory Farm Volunteers parade through Hillsboro, Oregon
Victory Farm Volunteers parade through Hillsboro, Oregon, streets as part of the VFV Field Day.
Potato pickers
Each picker stays on his own row until finished, carrying a supply of empty sacks fastened to a picking belt.
Loading out
Loading out operations at one of the Mexican camps in Umatilla County during cannery pea harvest. Farmers came in with their trucks early in the morning to take assigned crews of Mexicans to their own farms, and returned them to the camp after the…
Pear picker near Medford, Oregon
A migratory fruit picker high on a ladder is picking Comice pears at the Illihee Orchards near Medford, Oregon.
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.
