Mexican Migrant Workers

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     Mexican migrants on the road with flat
     tire, 1936. Looking for work in the peas.
    California.
      Mexican migrants on the road with flat
      tire, 1936. Looking for work in the peas.
      California.

 
 
1937 migratory Mexican field worker's home on the 
edge of a frozen pea field. Imperial Valley, California
Mexican immigrants in Texas in 1938.

 
 
Mexican citrus workers, Weslaco, Texas, 1939
Mexican citrus worker, Weslaco, Texas, 1939

 

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