Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico (LOC)

Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico

1942 Jan.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Tomatoes
Shipping
Cooperatives
Agricultural laborers
Women--Employment
United States--Puerto Rico--Yauco

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34052

Call Number: LC-USF35-498

Comments and faves

  1. featherbed, Mizrach.McClelland, carbonated, abbytrysagain, and 47 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. pennylrichardsca (60 months ago | reply)

    Photographer Jack Delano (1914-1997):
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Delano

  3. tropicalgardener1 (52 months ago | reply)

    I love this photo...I don't know why

  4. Docebrisa (47 months ago | reply)

    Essas mulheres não parecem felizes...

  5. ARCHIVO HISTORICO Y FOTOGRAFICO DE PUERTO RICO (40 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called YAUCO, LA CIUDAD DEL CAFE, P.R. - 1898 TO PRESENT, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  6. billy_pilgrim (22 months ago | reply)

    Green tomatoes. I'm guessing it took longer back then to ship them out of country, so they would ripen en route.

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