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Camp Blue Eagle
Two digital photos tentatively identified as Camp Blue Eagle, located near Naples and Springwater. Migrant farmworkers here weren't attached to any specific farm, although many worked at the Roy Gibson farm in Springwater. These images probably date…
Migrant Worker at Gibson Farm, Wayland
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…
Carl & Lucille Moore in their Backyard at Moore Camp, Wayland
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…
