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Agricultural laborers -- California

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: 670 __ |a UMI business vocab. |b (Farm labor, Farmworkers) 670 __ |a Web. 3 |b (farmhand: a farm laborers, esp. a hired laborer on a farm)

Use for flower pickers, agricultural workers, farmhands who are US born or whose nationality is unknown. For agricultural laborers from other countries use "Migrant agricultural laborers"

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

"Farming in Escondido not a fertile industry: Growers face rising costs, city expansion", 1994-09-07; 1994-09-11

 File — Box 11: Series SC003-01
Identifier: SC003_010_00691
Scope and Contents

"Ernesto Aguilar picks oranges on Tig Wohlford's farm." [Envelope contains additional images taken at Burnet "Tig" Wohlford's farm, which grew lemons, oranges, and avocados for 100 years in Escondido, California on 163 acres.]

Dates: Other: 1994-09-07; 1994-09-11

Male agricultural laborer, Flower Fields, Carlsbad

 Digital Image
Identifier: SC003-P-026

Rios, Dan. Interview, 2017-03-30

 File
Identifier: SC003-I-01
Scope and Contents Daniel Flores Rios, born in Hanford, California. April 10th, 1939 to Theodore and Jennie Rios, was the Chief Photographer at the Escondido Times-Advocate and North County Times newspapers. This interview recounts Rios's childhood and early adulthood, and his personal and educational journey towards becoming a news photographer.As a child and teen laborer Rios, due to extreme heat, convinced his field worker family to leave the Central Valley and join his aunts in San Diego. They...
Dates: 2017-03-30