Two Female Students Signing Up For Farm Work
Ethel Iskowitz, Ethel Steinberg sign up for farm work (Helen Goldberg at desk) as President of Brooklyn College, Harry D. Gideonse, and Professor Ralph Benedict look on. May 18, 1944.
View MoreThis collection contains digitized photographs depicting Brooklyn College’s Farm Labor Project. Students responded to the World War II farm labor shortage by volunteering to spend their summer as farm-workers. During the summers of 1942, '43, and '44, they worked on farms in Upstate New York picking peas and beans.
Also recommended: Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project