Browse Items (74 total)

  • Collection: Oceana County Migrant Labor History Collection
Go to Field Family Farm Records, 1950 item page

Farm Records from 1950. Diary includes all expenses, crops, and labor related to family farm for that period including cost of sales. Blank pages not scanned. Shelby, Michigan.
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 Field Family Journal, 1941 item page

Field Family journal, includes notes about daily life in Shelby, Michigan and Long Beach, California as well as other notes from trips. Of particular note are reflections and description from December, 1941 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Blank…
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 Travel Journal, 1939-1940 item page

Field Family travel journal, including trips to California, New York, and Florida. Blank pages not scanned.
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 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 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 Francisco Vasquez, picking pickles (cucumbers), 1984 item page

Francisco Vasquez at Golden Hart Farms in Hart, Michigan picking pickling cucumbers.
Go to Fuehring, Carl (audio interview and transcript) item page

Oral history interview with Carl Fuehring. Interviewed by Alan Moul on June 18, 2016 in Hart, Michigan. English language. Carl Fuehring was born into a fruit and Christmas tree growing family in the Crystal Lake area of Hart, Michigan. He spent his…
Go to Giles, Diana (audio interview and summary) item page

Oral history interview with Diana Giles. Interviewed by Norma Gonzalez Buenrostro. English language recording. Summary in English and Spanish. May 17, 2016. Diana grew up in Hart, Michigan. Her family moved to Oceana County in 2002 when she was five…
Go to Gonzalez, Norma Buenostro (audio interview and summary) item page

Self-recorded interview by Norma Buenrostro Gonzalez, May 18, 2016. Norma’s parents are originally from Michoacán, Mexico. Her family came to the United States in 1999, and she grew up in Holland, Michigan. Later, Norma and her older sister moved to…
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