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1.	Worker with tomatoes	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Tomatoes; Harvesting	Young Mexican worker with his bucket of tomatoes

2.	Truck loaded with workers	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon; Farm trucks	Workers loaded on the truck and off to the orchard for a day of thinning apples or picking cherries

3.	Crates of peas	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Peas	Workers hauling crates of peas

4.	Peas ready for canning	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Peas	Worker shown with peas ready for canning

5.	Workers line up for dinner	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Waiting in line for dinner, cafeteria style

6.	Workers line up for dinner	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Waiting in line for dinner, cafeteria style

7.	Merrill work camp	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	View of the Merrill Mexican work camp looking south

8.	Tomato harvesters	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Tomatoes; Harvesting	Two of the Mexican pickers with Mrs. Dloff

9.	Ready for work	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon	Two Mexicans registered and ready for work

10.	Workers' living quarters	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Two Mexican men in front of the rows of living quarters

11.	Sugar beet worker	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon	Transported Mexican National sugar beet worker

12.	Picking belt	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting; Potatoes	Style of picking belt, to which sack is fastened and dragged between the legs

13.	Stacking hop sacks	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon ; Hops	Stacking the hop sacks in the field after weighing

14.	Boxes of pea vines	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting machinery; Peas	Some growers stack their pea vines like hay.

15.	Cafeteria service	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Serving men cafeteria style is done at two places

16.	Mail call	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Returning to camp after the day's work the Mexicans go first to the "mail wall" where letters from home are posted.

17.	Cafeteria pie	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Pie was the dessert prepared on this day for the Mexican workers

18.	Pea viners	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon ; Harvesting machinery; Peas	Pea vines are fed into the large viners.

19.	Klamath onion field	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting; Onions	Part of a 65-acre onion field owned by West & Lyon being harvested by Mexicans

20.	Harvesting onions	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Onions; Harvesting	Onions harvested by Mexican Nationals show tops laid over onions to cure and prevent weather damage to bulbs.