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Title: Child at three rocks
Creator: Lowe, Ernest, 1934-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961-03-21
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Ernest Lowe Photography Collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
Description: Scope/Content: Children by tar paper shacks at Three Rocks, a farm worker community composed of condemned houses. Houses were originally on ranchers' land, but later moved to promoter's land. Promoter gave tenants houses and rented the land to avoid housing code penalties. No water was piped in. Houses were torn down in the mid-1960s and were replaced by a Federal self-help housing project.
Type: image
Form/Genre: Photographs
Identifier: 6822202
Language: English
eng
Subject: Migrant agricultural laborers
Place: Three Rocks (city); Fresno (county); California; United States
36°30′09″N 120°23′30″W
Relation: Farmworker Communities and Homes
Provenance: Acquired from Ernest Lowe with support from the UC Merced Office of the Chancellor, 2020.

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