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Sugar beet worker
Transported Mexican National sugar beet worker.
Picking cherries
Cherries were so much in demand this year that even the Black Republican variety of small, black cherries were picked clean by the Mexicans and sold for a good price.
Tomato harvesters
Two of the Mexican pickers with Mrs. Dloff.
Jamaican laborers
Jamaican laborers working on a pea viner in Umatilla County
Jamaican laborers
Jamaican laborers working on a pea viner in Umatilla County
Directing the crews
Mrs. Merril Hart, retired farmer's wife, speaks Spanish to help direct the Mexican work crews.
Camp dispensary
Mrs. Dorothy Burleson, Walla Walla nurse at Athena and Milton-Freewater farm labor camps, treating a Mexican National in a trailer dispensary at the Athena camp.
Potato pickers
Each picker stays on his own row until finished, carrying a supply of empty sacks fastened to a picking belt.