This photograph contains Wanda Hope cooking in the Marquart Farms kitchen. In 1976, Marquart Farms was a migrant labor farm in Wyoming County, with crew leader Elijah Hunter. Wanda is seen to be moving and working around the kitchen to prepare a…
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…
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…