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The death notice in the county paper was not more than two inches in depth but it had, nevertheless, its modest headline: PEA-PICKERS CHILD DIES. Already there had been three deaths in the pea-pickers' camp: a Mexican had been murdered, stabbed; a child had died of burns; a baby had died of what his young mother referred to as "a awful fever in his little stomach." >>more...>>

Title: Pea-Pickers' Child
Author: Penny, Lucrecia
Publication: Survey Graphic
Date: July, 1935

Publisher: Survey Associates, Inc.
Type: Article

Listed Under:
Agricultural Labor

Migrant Labor

Notes: Vol 24, No. 7, p. 352.