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Two of the Mexican pickers with Mrs. Dloff.

Transported Mexican National sugar beet worker.

Cherries were so much in demand this year that even the Black Republican variety of small, black cherries were picked clean by the Mexicans and sold for a good price.

Jamaican laborers working on a pea viner in Umatilla County

Jamaican laborers working on a pea viner in Umatilla County

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…

Mexicans harvesting cucumbers in Columbia County.

Returning to camp after the day's work the Mexicans go first to the "mail wall" where letters from home are posted.