Mexican migratory laborer thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Mexican migratory laborer thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

2-895-886 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants at thirty cents an hour; the young plants are capped with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California.


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Creator
  1. Dorothea Lange, attributed to: American: Photographer, artist, photojournalist

Medium
  1. Photograph

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World North and Central America United States California

  1. 37 00 00 N , 119 00 00 W

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4113x4331
File Size : 17,396kb


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  1. 2017769722
  1. 1010000857
  1. 2-895-886
  1. 2017769722
  1. 2895886

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