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  • Tags: Migrant Camps

Monica Garcia 3--D.jpg

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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…

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Following a Dream.pdf

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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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Elba Farm Labor Camp 1.jpg
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…

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