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Higgins (Floyd Halleck) Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers

Owning Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

About this Collection

In 1942, Higgins took photographs of Mexican workers entering the United States "brought in for the [sugar] beet harvest" for California Fields Crops, Inc. and as Higgins explains in a letter that he tried "to catch a lot of the social side in pictures." The photographs were taken mainly in the agricultural areas of the California communities of Woodland, Pleasanton, Manteca, and Salinas. View this collection on the contributor's website.
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135 items found in this collection

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Four Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck
Four workers entering camp building
Fourteen Mexican workers sitting on back of flatbed truck holding hoes
Fourteen Mexican workers sitting on back of flatbed truck waving hoes
Front entrance of Spreckels Sugar Company, Manteca, California
Government Official with Mexican workers
Government officials standing in front of church with police escort
Group of Mexican workers with church in background
Housing at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a …
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a …
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a …
Labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
Labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California with fields in …
A large group of Mexican workers walking down a street with a …
Last group of Mexican workers departing from train station by bus, Salinas, …
Line of trucks going to Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
Man playing piano
Man with wheelbarrow in front of labor camp buildings
Many Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck
Many Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck at Robert Barr's …
Max Baer and Little Max sitting on a Mack truck
Max Baer leaning on a door of a truck loaded with sugar …
Max Baer standing next to a Mack truck, obtaining a receipt from …
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