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  • Collection: Oceana County Migrant Labor History Collection
Go to Field Family Travel Journal, 1937-1938 item page

Field Family travel journal, including trips to Mexico City, Texas, and California
Go to Field Family Clippings, 1918-1940 item page

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…
Go to Francisco and Zandra Vasquez, picking apples, November 1987 item page

Francisco and Zandra Vasquez picking apples at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan.
Go to Francisco Vasquez, picking pickles (cucumbers), 1984 item page

Francisco Vasquez at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan picking pickling cucumbers.
Go to Francisco Vasquez and daughter, asparagus season, May 1985 item page

Francisco Vasquez with his younger daughter riding on a tractor in an asparagus field at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan.
Go to Vasquez Family picking apples, 1987 item page

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).
Go to Francisco Vasquez picking apples, 1978 item page

Francisco Vasquez in Traverse City, Michigan. Pictured during apple season in one of the fields where he worked.
Go to Graduation celebration, June 2002 item page

Graduation of a nephew. Hart, Michigan.
Go to Baptism, 1988 item page

Lupe Vasquez participating in the baptism of a newborn at St. Gregory's church in Hart, Michigan. Father Pedro is pictured at far left.
Go to Lupe Vasquez, August 1966 item page

Photo of Lupe Vasquez, taken shortly after the family's move into their new house on State Street in Hart, Michigan.
Go to Vasquez family trip to Mexico, 1971 item page

Photo of Lupe Vasquez on family trip to Mexico.
Go to Vasquez family trip to Mexico, 1971 item page

Photo of Lupe Vasquez (right) with two of her children. Children are the younger sister and brother of Fidencio, Jr.
Go to Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day, 1947 item page

Photo of Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day.
Go to Grafting plants, 1978 item page

Photo of Lupe Vasquez (left) and a relative working to graft plants at Willow Drive Nursery, Ephrata, Washington.
Go to Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day, 1947 item page

Photo of Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day.
Go to Vasquez family trip to Mexico, 1971 item page

Photo of Vasquez family trip to Mexico. Pictured are Fidencio, Jr. with his two brothers, sister, parents (Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez), and a cousin.
Go to Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day, 1947 item page

Photo of Fidencio and Lupe Vasquez on their wedding day.
Go to Lupe Vasquez and her godmother item page

Photo of Fidencio Vasquez, Jr.'s mother, Lupe Vasquez (left), with her godmother.
Go to Homestead Certificate, 1869 item page

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…
Go to Anton and Abba Field preparing for trip to Mexico City item page

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…
Go to Field Family Farmhouse, Shelby, Michigan, circa 1900 item page

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…
Go to U.S. Crop Corps Certificate of Service item page

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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Go to Delivering apples to processor, circa 1950 item page

Photograph of Esther Moul's father delivering apples to be processed.

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Go to Jamaican field workers, circa 1950 item page

Photograph of male workers on family farm. Workers are from Jamaica.

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