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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. Works on nationals of one country performing farm labor in another country are entered under |a Agricultural laborers, Foreign. Works on agricultural laborers who migrate from one section to another section of the same country are entered un |a 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