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A migrant family at a Plymouth pea cannery, 1948

Mexican Migrant Workers

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Since the 1940s, Wisconsin farms have employed migrant workers, primarily from Mexico. This image is of a Mexican woman and her six children at the housing facility on a pea cannery in Plymouth.

Citation

Mexican Migrant Workers. Sheboygan Press (15 July 1948);