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An envelope addressed to Sylvia Kelly and the Geneseo Migrant Center from New York City has two different colored handwritten quotes on top of it. Judging from its postmark, we can speculate it dates to around 2003 and may have been Kelly jotting…

This program was created for a 1991 exhibition whose premise was quite formalist: that there are four types of passages "common to all migrant people": through historical time, through space, through seasons of nature, and through cycles of life.…

This poem by Charlie Jr. Spinks speaks about how babies do not have to worry or take care of themselves while adults do. Spinks states how they sometimes wish to be a baby so they wouldn't have to stress about anything and their life would be easier.…

This untitled poem, written by Jerline Dobson talks about how her right foot was broken once, yet, never fixed. She talks about when the cold weather comes it starts to hurt and it reminds her of the time she broke her foot. Later in the poem, it is…

During the time of the Geneseo Migrant Center, this farm located near Gainesville, NY was one of Wyoming County's group of major potato producers. The scale of that operation is suggested by this photograph showing rows of filled bags, at the time…

Radical organization of space turns this lush orchard into a social cross-section of American agriculture. Four migrant workers are on ladders picking cherries, the one at left positioned to appear behind bars. A farmer or crew chief drives a tractor…