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  • Tags: Female labor

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…

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Photographed here is Annette Wells, a migrant farmworker of Moore Camp in Steuben County. This photographed was accessioned on a computer and saved through the Geneseo Migrant Center. Within the image, Annette is seen smiling while in the field. She…

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The unknown mother-to-be photographed in this portrait is seen to be directly interacting with the farm in which she is employed. Migrant females were expected to work despite pregnancy, with few accommodations provided to ensure comfortability. Work…

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