Maria Cavasos and her family at a migrant labor camp

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OrgLot74_B1F6_001

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Maria Cavasos and her family at a migrant labor camp

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  • 1966-10-07 (Creation)

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black-and-white prints (photographs); 10.0 x 7.1 inches

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Priscilla Carrasco was Editorial Assistant and Circulation Manager for the Valley Migrant League's Opportunity News circa 1965-1968. She wrote articles and took photographs for the newspaper.

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Photograph of 2 women and 5 children standing in front of a cabin in a migrant labor camp. The woman on the right is Maria Cavasos, who is a migrant laborer and has 9 children. Five of her children and 1 grandchild appear in this photograph. Every year, the Cavasos family travels from Texas to Oregon for seasonal farm work. From left to right clockwise, they are Caytano, Lupe (who holds her own daughter, Rosa), Eddy, Maria Cavasos, Alicia and Norberto Jr. This image was published in the Valley Migrant League's Opportunity News on May 20, 1966.

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Valley Migrant League photographs, Org. Lot 74, Box 1, Folder 6, 001

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