Valleyite grower enjoys 50 years of farming progress
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated December 11, 1950 partially reads, "At 58, Ezra Brent is a farmer and expects to die a farmer. Born on a farm near Ft. Worth, Tex., he started picking cotton at the age of seven, receiving 50 cents for every hundred-pound sack he picked. Later, Brent was promoted to cotton chopper and his pay scale finally went to $2 and $3 per hundred. That was pretty good, he says. And he managed to raise and educate his five children. Two years ago Brent moved to California. The first thing he looked for was farm labor. He went to work for Guisipie Risso whose farm lands may be inundated by flood waters impounded by the Sepulveda check dam. Brent now farms with modern equipment, drives a caterpillar diesel. He resides at 2012 Knox St., San Fernando." Photograph caption reads, "Half century farmer - Ezra Brent guides Diesel powered tractor over Valley farmland. Brent, 58, has been farming since he was seven years old. Started as cotton picker."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;12 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Farm equipment--California--San Fernando Farm tractors--California--San Fernando Farmers--California--San Fernando Farms--California--San Fernando Pioneers--California--San Fernando Men--California--San Fernando San Fernando (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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