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1.	Loading peas	Harvesting; Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Peas; Farm trucks	Mexican workers loading peas with a hay loader into a truck

2.	Man with sack of apples	Apples -- Harvesting

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

4.	Vine threshers	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting machinery; Peas	At the other end of the viners the threshed vines come out. One young Mexcian, who can read English, is enjoying himself with a magazine.

5.	Camp dispensary	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Health and hygiene--Oregon; Medical care	Mrs. Dorothy Burleson, Walla Walla nurse at Athena and Milton-Freewater farm labor camps, treats a Mexican National in a trailer dispensary at the Athena camp.

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

7.	Washing & ironing clothes	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon; Laundry	Mexican workers washing and ironing clothes

8.	Thinning fruit trees	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting; Orchards	Mexicans thinning fruit trees

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

10.	Washing up	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Health and hygiene--Oregon	Mexican workers washing up at a work camp in Benton County

11.	Sleeping quarters	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Inside one of the dormitory buildings, showing the type of sleeping quarters provided

12.	Workers eating lunch	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Eating lunch

13.	Tomato harvesting	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Tomatoes; Harvesting	Mexican laborers from the Freewater camp pick early tomatoes on the John R. Dloff farm.

14.	Camp dispensary	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Medical care; Agricultural laborers--Health and hygiene--Oregon	Mrs. Dorothy Burleson, nurse at Athena and Milton Freewater farm labor camps, dispenses cough medicine to Zamora Heriberto Perez. She stands at the door of the trailer dispensary.

15.	Work camp cafeteria	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon	Cafeteria before dinner, Hood River.

16.	Sacking harvested potatoes	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Potatoes; Harvesting machinery	Mexican workers sack potatoes. The sacking device runs crosswise with this type.

17.	Ready for field harvesting	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Farm trucks	Mexican workers loaded into trucks for a day of work in the fields

18.	Preparing dinner	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Cookery	In the cook tents the crew has been busy preparing the evening meal, the largest of the day.

19.	Potato harvesting	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting machinery; Potatoes	Harvesting the early potato crop in Malheur county was made possible by the presence of the Mexicans. One example is this digger at work on the Roy Holmes farm.

20.	Potato harvest	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Potatoes; Harvesting	Mexicans picking up potatoes were either paid 75 cents per hour or by the sack.