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

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

3.	Working with pea viner	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting machinery; Peas	Mexican Nationals working on a pea viner

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

5.	Loading out	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon; Farm trucks	Loading out operations at one of the Mexican camps in Umatilla County during cannery pea harvest. Farmers came in with their trucks early in the morning to take assigned crews of Mexicans to their own...

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

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

8.	Pea harvest operations	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting; Harvesting machinery; Peas	For cannery pea harvesting operations in Umatilla county, Mexican labor was a major factor in the successful harvesting operations. Note the 12 pea viners in operation, with trucks bringing in cannery...

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

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

11.	Laborers ready to work	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Agricultural laborers--Housing--Oregon; Farm trucks	Farmer's trucks lined up at the Athena farm labor camp awaiting loads of Mexicans for the pea harvest

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

13.	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.

14.	Loading pea viners	Agricultural laborers--Mexican--Oregon; Harvesting machinery; Peas	Harvesting cannery peas in Umatilla County requires about 2,000 additional adult laborers. Mexicans such as those shown here feeding the viners saved the day in harvesting this crop.

15.	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.

16.	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.