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Title
Five Mexican workers standing in front of labor camp buildings, Salinas, California
Creator
Higgins, Floyd Halleck, 1886-1975, Photographer
Contributor
Higgins, Floyd Halleck, 1886-1975, Photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
Publication Information
University of California, Davis, Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Contributing Institution
UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
Collection
Higgins (Floyd Halleck) Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers
Rights Information
Permissions for use must be submitted in writing to: The Head of the Dept. of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis 95616-5292
University of California Regents
Department of Special Collections, Shields Library, University of California, 100 N.W. Quad, Davis, CA, 95616-5292 (530) 752-1621; Fax (530) 754-5758 speccoll@ucdavis.edu
From the Floyd Halleck Higgins Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers, Dept. of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis. The collection is the property of the Regents of the University of California; no part may be reproduced or used withou permission of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Description
"At Spreckels where the largest beet sugar factory in the world is located, arriving beet field workers from Mexico found everything whitewashed and cleaned up with new screens on the cookhouse and much carpentering and painting being done to improve housing and food sanitation." Description by Hal Higgins.
Type
image
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt938nf6j3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0123

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