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TITLE: Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps
CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 032108-D [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USF34-032108-D (b&w film nitrate neg.)
MEDIUM: 1 negative : nitrate ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1939 Feb.
CREATOR:
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer.
NOTES:
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 29, frame 1367.
TOPICS:
SUBJECTS:
United States--Texas--Hidalgo County--Weslaco.
FORMAT:
PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
DIGITAL ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b37175 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b37175
OTHER NUMBER: H 4407
CONTROL #: fsa2000013291/PP
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