Keywords: Edison, Kern County, California. Pickers sack early potatoes, dug by mechanical digger on large-scal . . . - NARA - 521805.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Edison Kern County California Pickers sack early potatoes dug by mechanical digger on large-scale ranch Wages are 35 cents per hour Kern County planted 27 250 acres in potatoes in 1940 General notes 521805 Local identifier 83-G-41561 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Lange Dorothea 1895-1965 Photographer 1372774 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1940-04-11 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-41561 Other versions <gallery> File Edison _Kern_County _California _Pickers_sack_early_potatoes _dug_by_mechanical_digger_on_large-scal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521805 tif tif File Edison _Kern_County _California _Pickers_sack_early_potatoes _dug_by_mechanical_digger_on_large-scal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521805 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Edison California Manual harvesting Potato harvest 1940 in California Fields in California |