Fotografía de trabajadores agrícolas plantando tomates / Photograph of Agricultural Workers Planting Tomatoes

Title:

Fotografía de trabajadores agrícolas plantando tomates / Photograph of Agricultural Workers Planting Tomatoes

Date:

1980

Description:

Fotografía en color de trabajadores agrícolas en un campo de cultivo. Jesús Bordallo conduce un tractor que lleva un remolque en el que va su esposa María y otra mujer plantando tomates. Hacia atrás se ve otro tractor y varios trabajadores más. Los tractores hacen pequeños agujeros en el suelo y los humedecen y los trabajadores que se sientan en la plataforma colocan las plantas de tomate en ellos. Este campo estaba ubicado en Dairy Farm Rd, Johns Island, SC. / Color photograph of agricultural workers in a field. Jesus Bordallo is driving a tractor that pulls a trailer carrying his wife Maria and another female worker planting tomatoes. In the back there is another tractor and several more workers. The tractor makes little holes in the soil and drips water inside them and the workers sitting on the platform place the tomato plants in the holes. The farm was located at Dairy Farm Rd, Johns Island, South Carolina.

Collection Title:

Aqui Estamos

Contributing Institution:

The Citadel Archives & Museum

Media Type:

Images

Topical Subject:

Latin Americans--Southern States, Hispanic Americans--Southern States, Migrant agricultural laborers, and Women agricultural laborers

Geographic Subject:

Johns Island (S.C.)

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Language:

English and Spanish

Date Digital:

2017-10-25

Digitization Specifications:

600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Perfection V600, Archival masters are tiffs.

Internet Media Type:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Copyright status undetermined.

Access Information:

For more information contact The Citadel Archives

Admin ID:

43085