Through My Father's Eyes: The Filipino American Photographs of Ricardo Oreto Alvardo (1914-1976)
The Harvest, California, 1950s
Filipino migrant workers harvested bell peppers, lettuce, celery, artichoke, and asparagus crops. In earlier times, Chinese and Japanese had worked the same fields. In the 1930s, Mexican and European American migrant workers from the South and Midwest worked alongside the Filipino pickers
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