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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Trailing oversize sacks behind them, these Mexican workers are doing a good turn for their American neighbors. With serious shortages threatening ruin to Texas harvests. Mexican workers stepped into the breach and saved the crops, vital to the war effort
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Credit lineAgricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Trailing oversize sacks behind them, these Mexican workers are doing a good turn for their American neighbors. With serious shortages threatening ruin to Texas ha. 1942. United States. Office Of War Information, Hollem, Howard R.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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