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| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Matias Perez and her daughter empty buckets of cucumbers picked into burlap bags. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley. Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | From left to right, a sister, mother and brother attending a wedding celebration in Mercedes, Texas. The woman on the left is wearing an empire waist sleev... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman holding a bucket and wearing a covering over her head, a checkered long sleeve shirt, pants, and gloves. She is standing behind crates of Roma toma... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Bunk beds used by the Contreras family, Mexican-American migrant workers, in Wautoma, Wisconsin, 1970s-1980s. (Museum object #1999.16.1A-G) |
| Photographer David Giffey Captures Details of Migrant Worker Life |
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| Learn about migrant worker life in Wisconsin and Texas captured by Wisconsin-born photojournalist David Giffey. |
| Lee una breva historia de Lucha por la Justicia para los Trabajadores Agrícolas. |
| The History of Modern Immigration in Wisconsin |
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| Discover the economic and cultural changes that brought new immigrants to Wisconsin in the 20th century. |
| Date: | 12 31 1979 |
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| Description: | Felipe Quirós-Pérez reading yesterday's paper in a booth at Rennebohm's on State Street. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez speaking while standing in front of a United Farm Workers banner commemorating the unionization of workers at a flower nursery on October 22, ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of seven Mexican-American children holding tissue paper flowers. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Musicians in the foreground are performing before a crowd at a Hispanic Community concert in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View of a United Migrant Opportunity Services sign. A logo consisting of the outline of the State of Wisconsin with two hands shaking are between laurels, ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Four people are posing beneath a road sign that reads: "Informes para obreros en la parada descanco adelante" (Information for workers at the stop). |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Student rally in the Great Hall at Memorial Union to establish a Chicano Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 06 12 1976 |
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| Description: | Casual outdoor portrait of Judge Jose Angel Gutierrez of Zabala County, Texas. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Polici... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Casual outdoor portrait of Mayor Jeff Friedman of Austin. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies held on the St. Ed... |
| Date: | 06 12 1976 |
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| Description: | Casual outdoor portrait of Mayor Jeff Friedman of Austin. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies held on the St. Ed... |
| Date: | 05 26 1979 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of a man, identified as Jose Ortiz. This image accompanied a Milwaukee Journal article about the Milwaukee Archdiocese parishes... |
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