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- Collection: Oceana County Migrant Labor History Collection
Field Family Travel Journal, 1937-1938
Field Family travel journal, including trips to Mexico City, Texas, and California
Field Family Clippings, 1918-1940
Book of clippings from local newspaper maintained by Mrs. A.T. Field, Shelby, Michigan (Oceana County). Clippings span 1918-1940, with bulk of clippings from 1920s-1930s. Articles are pasted into a book telling the history of the Detroit News, a way…
Francisco and Zandra Vasquez, picking apples, November 1987
Francisco and Zandra Vasquez picking apples at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan.
Francisco Vasquez, picking pickles (cucumbers), 1984
Francisco Vasquez at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan picking pickling cucumbers.
Francisco Vasquez and daughter, asparagus season, May 1985
Francisco Vasquez with his younger daughter riding on a tractor in an asparagus field at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan.
Vasquez Family picking apples, 1987
Vasquez Family picking apples at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan. Pictures from left to right are Eloisa's younger sister, Francisco Vasquez, and Zandra Vasquez (background, red jacket).
Francisco Vasquez picking apples, 1978
Francisco Vasquez in Traverse City, Michigan. Pictured during apple season in one of the fields where he worked.
Baptism, 1988
Lupe Vasquez participating in the baptism of a newborn at St. Gregory's church in Hart, Michigan. Father Pedro is pictured at far left.
Lupe Vasquez, August 1966
Photo of Lupe Vasquez, taken shortly after the family's move into their new house on State Street in Hart, Michigan.
Vasquez family trip to Mexico, 1971
Photo of Lupe Vasquez (right) with two of her children. Children are the younger sister and brother of Fidencio, Jr.
Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day, 1947
Photo of Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day.
Grafting plants, 1978
Photo of Lupe Vasquez (left) and a relative working to graft plants at Willow Drive Nursery, Ephrata, Washington.
Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day, 1947
Photo of Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day.
Vasquez family trip to Mexico, 1971
Photo of Vasquez family trip to Mexico. Pictured are Fidencio, Jr. with his two brothers, sister, parents (Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez), and a cousin.
Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day, 1947
Photo of Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day.
Lupe Vasquez and her godmother
Photo of Fidencio Vasquez, Jr.'s mother, Lupe Vasquez (left), with her godmother.
Homestead Certificate, 1869
Certificate from General Land Office of the United States of America at Ionia, Michigan for Wiliam H. Beebe, certifying that a homestead "has been established and daily consummated in conformity to the law for the east half of the south-east quarter…
Anton and Abba Field preparing for trip to Mexico City
Photo of Anton (right) and Abba (left) Field preparing to leave for a trip to Mexico City. (Anton's father was S. O. Field.) A sweet cherry tree is pictured in the background. A copy of their travel journal from that trip was also donated and scanned…
Field Family Farmhouse, Shelby, Michigan, circa 1900
Photo of Field Family Farmhouse accompanied story in local paper "Success Without a Mortgage" (image Peterson_Marge-005.jpg). House was built in 1899 by Marge Peterson's great grandfather, S. O. Field. Field migrated from Norway to Chicago before…
U.S. Crop Corps Certificate of Service
U.S. Crop Corps Certificate of Service issued to Esther Gilliland, June 1, 1943, "for patriotic service on a farm or in a food processing factory." Signed by U.S. War Food Administrator, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, and State Director of…
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Delivering apples to processor, circa 1950
Photograph of Esther Moul's father delivering apples to be processed.
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Jamaican field workers, circa 1950
Photograph of male workers on family farm. Workers are from Jamaica.
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