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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A photograph of workers gathering seedlings in California, 1930.

A photograph of workers gathering seedlings in California, 1930.

This photograph shows a migrant worker in San Fernando, California pulling young onion plants from a seedbed to prepare for transplantation into an onion field. This was the type of temporary fieldwork that was performed by migrant workers.

Citation Information
“Workers gathering seedlings,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/0ac01e17b75269f472852b89d75a2688.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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  • the author's point of view
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Item 6 of 14 in the Primary Source Set Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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An excerpt from a critical study entitled The Novels of John Steinbeck, 1939.
An oil-on-canvas painting entitled Valley Farms by Ross Dickinson, 1934.
An excerpt from a pamphlet entitled Legislation for the Feeble-Minded by Miss A. H. P. Kirby, 1914.
A photograph of an insane asylum, 1963.
A photograph of two migrant workers in California, 1937.
A photograph of workers gathering seedlings in California, 1930.
A photograph of migrant workers in San Joaquin Valley, California, 1940.
A photograph of San Jose State College Speech and Drama Department’s production of Of Mice and Men, 1961.
A photograph of men playing cards and drinking in the forest, ca. 1930.
Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse” in A Primer of Burns, 1907.
A drawing of the ranch of S.M. Hoover in Sacramento County, California, 1879.
An architectural drawing of a small farm and residence, 1930.
A political cartoon about World War II by Dr. Seuss, 1942.
A drawing by David Smith titled “Private Law and Order Leagues,” depicting vigilante justice in America, 1938-39.

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