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Title
Workers gathering seedlings
Names
Woehlke, Walter Victor, 1881-1954 (Writer of accompanying material)
Collection

Photographic views of the United States

California

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1930-05 (Inferred)
Library locations
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
Shelf locator: AZ 12-2331
Topics
United States
California
Onions
Seedlings
San Fernando (Calif.)
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Periodical clipping of the same image attached to verso
Content: Printed on verso: "Mexican pulling young onion plants from the seed bed and preparing them for transplanting in the onion field, San Fernando Valley, California."
Content: Written on verso: "The bulk of the stooping, bending, crawling kind of temporary field work has always been done by dark-skinned laborers in the Southwest."
Date: Date issued inferred from copyright date.
Physical Description
Extent: Photograph : b ; 25.6 x 20.2 cm
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19745455
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5e733990-c5cf-012f-4f81-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1881: Creator Born
  • 1930: Issued
  • 1954: Creator Died
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Workers gathering seedlings" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1930-05. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-ee46-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Workers gathering seedlings" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-ee46-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1930-05). Workers gathering seedlings Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-ee46-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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Workers gathering seedlings