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Pear picker near Medford, Oregon
A migratory fruit picker high on a ladder is picking Comice pears at the Illihee Orchards near Medford, Oregon.
Native Americans working pea viner
Some Indians were used in the pea vining operations. These are working on the C. C. Curl farm in Umatilla County, Oregon.
Harvesting cucumbers
Mexicans harvesting cucumbers in Columbia County.
Japanese American workers hoeing beets
About 450 Japanese from relocation centers were used in Malheur County. They worked mostly for Japanese farmers, though these were working in the Dale Garrison beet field.
Mail call
Returning to camp after the day's work the Mexicans go first to the "mail wall" where letters from home are posted.
Portrait of a Japanese American woman
Japanese American field worker, Ontario, Oregon. In May 1942, Malheur County became one of the first areas to recruit Japanese- American evacuees for farm work. Some of the evacuees remained in Eastern Oregon after the order excluding them from the…
Smith cannery
A mixture of town men and women, as well as soldiers, supplied the labor for Smith cannery.
Japanese American workers planting onions
Japanese Americans
Onions
Farming
Agricultural laborers
Onions
Farming
Agricultural laborers
Weighing Hops
P.M. Osborne, section boss from Salem, watching two weighers helt the hops belonging to Myrna Hedrick, 14, Dequeen, Arkansas