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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…

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…

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…

Caption suggests this photo was taken at the Gibson Farm in Wayland, NY, and a migrant labor camp run by Carl and Lucille Moore. While accommodations look extremely basic--a shared kitchen and refrigerator for perhaps dozens of farmworkers--Moore had…

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…

Originally entitled, "Mrs. Moore (Carl's Mother) & Roy Gibson (Tomato Series A) Moore Camp, Steuben", under number 449, Mrs. Moore and Roy Gibson, sort through tomatoes with gloves after they are processed through a machine in Moore Camp on Gibson…

Man stands at a machine that appears to be sorting and removing dirt from tomatoes. An advisory label on the machine reads "extreme caution" in Spanish. The photograph is part of a "Tomato Series" showing the work process at Gibson Farm.