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Title: Laborer working with the short-handled hoe (el cortito)
Creator: Echavarria, Manuel, photographer
Contributing Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Collection: Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection
Rights Information: Copyright, Manuel Echavarria
Description: Constant bending over in the fields permanently injured the backs of many field workers. Working with the short-handled hoe, or el cortito, was considered one of the worst of agricultures labor-intensive jobs.
Type: image
Format: Photographic print
Identifier: 098-1-a-01-00-01
https://digital.lib.calpoly.edu/rekl-4378
Place: California
United States
Source: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g50363t/--Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection--MS0098

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