Lettuce Carrier
notes: label: Description
content: The Emergency Farm Labor Program, or the Bracero Program, brought laborers from Mexico to the United States on short-term contracts between 1942 and 1964. In the lettuce fields of Stanislaus and Imperial Counties in California, field laborers used small, square wheel barrows, called humps to pack and move boxes of lettuce. Each box held about twenty-four or thirty heads. This hump was used in the California fields of the Jerry Pepelis Packing Company from 1960 until 1964, when the Bracero Program ended. By then, humps were abandoned for more efficient, automated methods of harvesting.
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Food
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Jerry Pepelis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0054.01
label: accession number
content: 2012.0054
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0054.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lettuce hump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: lettuce hump frame: 22 7/8 in x 15 3/16 in; 58.1025 cm x 38.57625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: lettuce hump wheel: 11 3/4 in; 29.845 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: individual boxes (flat): 36 3/4 in x 25 1/4 in; 93.345 cm x 64.135 cm