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This is the first of two related photographs that show cooking facilities at a migrant farmworker camp run by Carl Moore. As labor camps go it is relatively clean; however, as the second photograph reveals, it was used by many people after a day at…

Unidentified migrant farmworkers from Haiti, which probably dates the photograph to the 1980s and severe economic & political crises that drove emigration. This scene is at a labor camp, probably outside of a cinder block barracks where the young…

A letter to the editor of The Genesee Farmer claimed that the "drudgery and discomfort to which farmers’ wives and daughters are subjected" was even greater than the wives of laborers and mechanics. This was because farm women were responsible for…

Migrant farmworker tossing what appears to be potatoes onto a conveyor belt at the Roy Gibson Farm in Wayland, NY. Gibson was a long-time member of the Steuben County Potato Growers Association and had a reputation as a relatively fair employer and…

During a time when wheat and other grains were hand-sown, there were debates as to the most effective methods. This illustration accompanied a description of a "sowing-sheet," which was a piece of square linen folded into a kind of sling, "having an…

The Geneseo Migrant Center began as an education initiative during the 1960s. Even after its programs expanded into other areas, students at SUNY Geneseo continued to work directly with children and sometime publish their research. It's possible that…

Caption suggests this photo was taken at the Gibson Farm in Wayland, NY, and a migrant labor camp run by Carl and Lucille Moore. While accommodations look extremely basic--a shared kitchen and refrigerator for perhaps dozens of farmworkers--Moore had…

Two horses and a farmer working the fields.

Close-up photograph of the largest crop harvested by migrant farmworkers in Wyoming County, primarily due to the careful hand work needed to prevent damage. A week before potatoes were harvested, an herbicide was sprayed on the foliage. Original…

Carl Moore was the "crew leader" for Roy Gibson's farm near Wayland, NY. What this title meant is that he served as an intermediary between farmer and migrant farmworkers: he recruited them (from Florida) and bused them up to New York; their wages…