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Produce packers

By Angela Cotey | November 16, 2020

| Last updated on December 14, 2020

Workers pack ice in wooden crates with carrots at Elsa, Texas, northwest of Brownsville, in February 1939. There is an unidentified wooden reefer behind them.
Photo by Russell Lee, Library of Congress

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