John Vachon: Migrants, Michigan


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Image, Source: digital file from original neg.

Automobile of migrant cherry pickers

Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Wife of migrant fruit picker

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Wife of migrant fruit worker

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Migrant fruit workers during slack season in between cherries and berries

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Fruit tramp

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Old barn used as bunkhouse for migrant fruit pickers from the South (this grower employs only unmarried Negroes)

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Camp of migrant fruit workers in field on outskirts of town

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Camp of migrant fruit workers

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Family of migrant fruit workers camped along railroad tracks

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Boy picking strawberries

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Picking strawberries

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Strawberry picker

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Young strawberry picker

Image, Source: b&w film copy neg. of print

Migrant strawberry picker

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Children of migrant cherry pickers

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Child of migrant cherry pickers

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Child of migrant berry pickers

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Migrant farm workers

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Family of migratory workers from Texas in roadside camp

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Migrant woman from Arkansas in roadside camp

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Migrant woman from Arkansas in roadside camp

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Migrant child from Arkansas in roadside camp

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Cabins rented for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week by migratory fruit pickers and packing house workers


Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

William Blake: On Another's Sorrow, from Songs of Innocence, 1789


Photos by John Vachon, Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)