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| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A family from Texas temporarily settles in Waushara County. Their white truck is parked in front of a grassy area and wooden house. The father is standing ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman holding a bucket and wearing a covering over her head, a checkered long sleeve shirt, pants, and gloves. She is standing behind crates of Roma toma... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A recruiter's billboard advertising work available for pickle harvesters. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Waut... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | The interior of a floorless tin communal shower hut with shower heads and sinks for migrant farm workers in a labor camp. This photograph is a part of Wi... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A semi-truck with a pickle advertisement on its side at the loading dock of a Chicago Pickle Company warehouse. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-na... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an inde... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers meeting in Bancroft after a strike. There are four men wearing hats standing in front of a women's outhouse. Strikes in Wisconsin were... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | The man standing in a suit and dark tie with glasses to the left is Charles Heymanns, international organizer for AFL-CIO. Seated to his right in a light s... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers testify at the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) hearing after a strike in Bancroft. Seated on the left is Obreros Unid... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Standing on the hood of the car in a striped short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses is Salvador Sanchez, an organizer for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Wi... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers gathering at a cucumber receiving station after striking. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos (United Workers),as an indepe... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Two boys standing on the sidewalk are distributing "La Voz Mexicana" ("The Mexican Voice"), the official newspaper of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a un... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez, the leader of United Farm Workers, is standing at the center of the photograph surrounded by members of the press. Behind him is a photograph... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | On the right, Jesus Salas, leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm worker union. On the left, John Schmitt, president of the AF... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | On the left, Bill Smith, administrative assistant for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), the Wisconsin migrant farm workers' union. On the right, Mark Erenbe... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | At the center of the photograph, in hat, is Manuel Salas. One is Father Michael Garrigan, dressed in black. Chuck Miller is shown at left, and Father Mich... |
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