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The Garcia Family Photos
This image incorporates a lot of life within an oddly cropped picture of the Garcia Family. This image gives a look inside of the living conditions of migrant farmworkers, but not through the eyes of someone who knows them as a worker, instead the…
Envelope addressed to Sylvia Kelly with two handwritten quotes
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…
Félix Hipolito - "On the job"
This poem, written by Felix Hipolito demonstrates the life that a migrant farm worker has. The first stanza of the poem begins with Hipolito getting to work and cutting tomatoes and then continuing to do so for the rest of her workday. From this…
Sodus Photo Collection
This item features a collection of photos from a migrant camp held at Sodus Elementary School in 2015. The students were able to combine their educational learning with their personal interests. The students are seen taking photos, coloring mandalas,…
Following A Dream Galleys and Selected Poems
This series of poems was created by various migrant workers on farms across New York that worked together with the Geneseo Migrant Center. The poems were organized in this collection by Sylvia Kelly, the director of the Creative Artists Migrant…
Wanda Hope, 1976
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…
Annette Wells, Moore Camp
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…
CAMPS Class In Session
A black and white image of a CAMPS class in session. There are multiple people within this image and they are all seen dancing together. The group is a mix of adults and children, possibly suggesting that they are the teachers and students in this…
Elba Farm Labor Camp
In 1942, amid World War II labor shortages, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) constructed a labor camp located near the town of Elba, NY. It was one of many across the country whose purpose was to facilitate the harvest of valuable crops. These…
Brockport Migrant Education Summer Art Class
This image is a part of a collection of photos taken at the Brockport Migrant Education Outreach Program. Along with the image is a letter(not featured) written to Sylvia Kelly, CAMPS Coordinator at Geneseo Migrant Center, from one of the workers at…