Sadie Cordero and Children Picking Grapes

Item

Title

Sadie Cordero and Children Picking Grapes

Identifier

2022.006.075

Type

image

Description

Black and white photograph of Sadie Cordero and her three children, a daughter and two sons, picking grapes in Salinas, California. Some Mexican American families in California would go pick various California produce in the Summer and Fall. Some picked apricots in Hemet, walnuts in Concord, stone fruit in Fairfield, and other crops. For many, following the crops was a matter of survival in the absense of local, full-time, year-round work Families would spend summers and the early fall months harvesting crops throughout California and other parts of the West.

Subject

Agribusiness
Grape Industry

Spatial Coverage

Salinas (Calif.)

Temporal Coverage

unknown

Creator

unknown

Date

unknown

Contributor

Inland Mexican Heritage, Courtesy of Nellie Del Rio

Format

.tif

Language

English

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Bibliographic Citation

Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.