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Farmers' Cooperative

Date: 09 04 1960
Description: Quonset hut-style Wyocena Farmer's Cooperative.
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Farmland

Date: 06 08 1963
Description: A group of farm buildings, as seen from across a field of growing corn. Several trees surround the farm buildings.
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Hayfield with Hay Bales

Date: 06 09 1963
Description: View from grassy border of a large field dotted with hay bales. Trees line a small ridge in the far background.
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Open Barn Door

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: A wooden barn door is partly opened, inside a seat of a tractor is visible. Various weeds and tall grasses grow in front of the barn door.
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Silo and Field

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: A cement silo surrounded by plants and shrubs. A tree-lined field is in the background.
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Barn and Silo

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: Rear view of a barn with stone foundation and a cement silo. In the foreground are overgrown shrubs and grass.
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Striking Farm Worker Displays Union Button

Date: 1967
Description: Farm worker Conrado Lopez, on strike against Libby, McNeill & Libby, displays his "Huelga! — NFWA" union button with its trademark black eagle symbol in a ...
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United Farmworkers Union Protest Signs

Date: 1969
Description: Hand-lettered protest signs and United Farm Workers (UFW) paper flags taped to a concrete wall in response to an official posting by the Fall River Canning...
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Fall River Canning Company Posting to Striking Workers

Date: 1969
Description: Close-up of a notice posted by the Fall River Canning Company in response to striking workers. The left notice is posted in English and on the right is Spa...
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Fall River Canning Company Entrance

Date: 1969
Description: Entrance to Fall River Canning Company. A number of trucks full of vegetables are in the parking lot or driveway in front of low sprawling warehouse buildi...
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Workers Discuss Strategy after Walkout

Date: 1969
Description: Jorge Vasquez (wearing beret) discusses strategy with Fall River Canning Company workers after walkout. Children, youth and adults stand clustered in a cir...
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Huelgista in Cambria

Date: 1969
Description: A Huelgusta (striker) against Fall River Canning Company with Obreros Unidos (United Workers), standing with a crowd. She is wearing round earrings, a blac...
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William Evans of Fall River Canning Company

Date: 1969
Description: Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout.

Eighty workers of His...

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Strikers in Cucumber Field

Date: 1967
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...
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Strikers Leaving Field

Date: 1967
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...
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Workers Gathering at Cucumber Receiving Station

Date: 1967
Description: Workers gathering at a cucumber receiving station after striking.

Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos (United Workers),as an indepe...

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Abandoned Farm

Date: 1960
Description: Abandoned farm along Highway 51.

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