The image depicts two individuals in a field of crops. They are both wearing hats and long-sleeved shirts, suggesting that the weather might be sunny or warm. Each person is bending over to gather something from the ground into wooden buckets placed on one side between them. The fields stretch out behind them towards distant mountains under a clear sky. This black-and-white photograph captures a moment of laborious agricultural work, likely related to harvesting produce such as peas given the context provided by another image reference indicating pea pickers' wages and working conditions from 1939 in California.
Pea pickers. Wages (1939): one cent per pound. Hamper holds about twenty eight pounds. Near Niland, Imperial County, California
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