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Waiting line for dinner
A line of Braceros workers waiting outside the dining tents for supper. Service is quick enough to prevent long waiting in line.
POWs blocking sugar beets
POWs blocking sugar beets in Malheur County.
Preparing dinner
In the cook tents, the crew has been busy preparing the evening meal, the largest of the day.
Elderly Farm Laborers
Mr. and Mrs. William Rick, Baker, picking at the Mitoma hopyard near independence. They are Old timers and have been picking each season for 30 years. He is 77; she, 72; $12 per day.
Tomato harvesters
Two of the Mexican pickers with Mrs. Dloff.
Elsie Hill driving tractor
Mrs. Elsie Hill, Route 3, Junction City, Oregon, spent the summer driving a tractor at the Benton County Flax Grower's Cooperative plant near Monroe, Oregon.
Women wigwaming flax
A crew of neighborhood women are wigwaming fibre flax at the Benton County flax Growers Cooperative near Monroe, Oregon.
Sugar beet worker
Transported Mexican National sugar beet worker.
Filbert pickers
The filbert pickers are coeds from Benton County, Oregon.