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Employment signs in Spanish and English. These ranches (1938) increasingly use Negro pickers. Near Fresno, California

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Lange, Dorothea

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1933 Oct.
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  1. California
  2. Cotton, Pickers
  3. Nitrate Negatives
  4. United States

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