Puerto Rican migrant workers in barracks on a fruit farm in Dutchess County, N.Y.

Puerto Rican migrant workers in barracks on a fruit farm in Dutchess County, N.Y.

Migrant laborers
Labor housing

Photograph taken between 1949 and 1950 of Puerto Rican migrant workers in barracks where they slept in New York City. The photograph is physical evidence of the dilapidated conditions in which Puerto Rican workers in New York had to tolerate. It adds to the experiences of mass movement from Puerto Rico to the U.S mainland by exposing the poor conditions which workers tolerated and lived in order to make a life for themselves in New York City.

New York Times

New York Times

Library of Congress

1949 or 1950

Kaitly Bobe

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https://www.loc.gov/item/92504600/

1949-1950