Truckload of Mexican migrants returning to their homes in the Rio Grande Valley from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Neches, Texas
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Title
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Truckload of Mexican migrants returning to their homes in the Rio Grande Valley from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Neches, Texas
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Rights
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The New York Public Library, New York. Public Domain.
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Creator
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Lee, Russell (1903-1986)
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Date
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1939 C.E.
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Description
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Mexican migrant workers frequently traveled long distances to work for very low wages on American Farms. While some workers were able to find temporary housing on the farms where they worked, others commuted hundreds of miles both ways to toil in the fields. In this photo, a family of Mexican migrant workers traveled over six hundred miles from Texas to Mississippi to pick cotton. Early migrant workers also had to find their own means of transportation, which meant that they spent a large portion of their earnings traveling to and from the fields.
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Format
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Gelatin silver print. 8 x 10 in.
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Publisher
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The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
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Contributor
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Melissa Valenzuela
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Identifier
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The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 012465-M2.
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Subject
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Farm workers; migrant workers; Mexican migrant workers; farmworkers movement; agriculture; labor history; Texas; Russell Lee.
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Source
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Jpg file. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 11/5/2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f5e7bd20-e1ef-0136-b7d9-087339011bf8