Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows, Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange. # 2896053

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows, Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

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Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground. This work requires endurance but no special skill. 1937 wages: forty cents an hour. Shafter, California.