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| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Matias Perez and her daughter empty buckets of cucumbers picked into burlap bags. |
| Date: | 03 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley. Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | From left to right, a sister, mother and brother attending a wedding celebration in Mercedes, Texas. The woman on the left is wearing an empire waist sleev... |
| 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 ... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Bunk beds used by the Contreras family, Mexican-American migrant workers, in Wautoma, Wisconsin, 1970s-1980s. (Museum object #1999.16.1A-G) |
| Photographer David Giffey Captures Details of Migrant Worker Life |
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| Learn about migrant worker life in Wisconsin and Texas captured by Wisconsin-born photojournalist David Giffey. |
| Lee una breva historia de Lucha por la Justicia para los Trabajadores Agrícolas. |
| Date: | 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Linda Luna of Auraura, Illinois washes clothes at a basin outside a cabin in a migrant worker camp in Door County. Several articles of clothing are lying i... |
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