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Employment signs in Spanish and English. These ranches (1938) increasingly use Negro pickers. Near Fresno, California

Employment signs in Spanish and English. These ranches (1938) increasi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Street Meeting, San Francisco / "Here Democracy Survives" / "What's Ahead?"

Street Meeting, San Francisco / "Here Democracy Survives" / "What's Ah...

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Adults and children registering as ship passengers at dock in San Francisco

Adults and children registering as ship passengers at dock in San Fran...

Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 6.

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction ...

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Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. United States No. 99, California

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. Un...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003804-ZE; corrected 1998. Print in microfilmed lot misnumbered 38042-E. Title and other information from caption card... More

Drinking water for field worker's family. Imperial Valley, California, near El Centro

Drinking water for field worker's family. Imperial Valley, California,...

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Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new mi...

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An old black and white photo of a man and a woman, Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman, Dispossessed Arkans...

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Squatter camp facilities

Squatter camp facilities

Shelter with trash strewn around, Indio, Imperial Valley, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.

A group of people sitting on a bench next to a truck, Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

A group of people sitting on a bench next to a truck, Potato harvester...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas ... More

Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California

Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California

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Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part of the child welfare program at the Resettlement Administration camp. California

Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part...

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Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into California. U.S. 80 / Dorothea Lange, 1935.

Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into...

Photograph shows cars crossing a bridge with a sign with the word "Yuma" on the top.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Photograph shows a woman seated with her children at the entrance to a squatter's shelter. In album: Rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California / compiled by Paul S. Taylor. 1935, [bottom, plate 31].

Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent

Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent

House made of eucalyptus leaves, Bakersfield, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest. Nipomo, California

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea har...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003803-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Infor... More

Paul Taylor with Migrant Workers, Imperial Valley, California

Paul Taylor with Migrant Workers, Imperial Valley, California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of C...

File print misnumbered LC-USF341-001608-B; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about th... More

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, Cali...

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Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A family group posing on deck, and a man looking through a porthole

Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A family group posing on de...

Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 7.

A black and white photo of a group of people in front of a truck, Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of a group of people in front of a truck, Pota...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003807-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

All races serve the crops in California

All races serve the crops in California

Photographs show four agricultural workers, each representing a different ethnic or racial group. Individual image titles: Filipinos working in pole peas; From Texas (white man); Pea picker from Texas (African ... More

Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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Truck driver's family. Imperial Valley, California

Truck driver's family. Imperial Valley, California

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A black and white photo of a building under construction, Slums of San Francisco, California

A black and white photo of a building under construction, Slums of San...

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Cantaloupe Pickers, Mexicans, at End of Day in California Melon Fields / Mexican Labor Off for the Melon Fields in the Imperial Valley, California

Cantaloupe Pickers, Mexicans, at End of Day in California Melon Fields...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahoma Refugees from the Dust Bowl, Looking for Work on the Cotton Fields, Now Encamped Near Bakersfield, California

Oklahoma Refugees from the Dust Bowl, Looking for Work on the Cotton F...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pea pickers from Vermont - 6 weeks earnings $7.00 - at squatter's camp, Nipomo

Pea pickers from Vermont - 6 weeks earnings $7.00 - at squatter's camp...

Photograph shows men working on an automobile parked in front of a tent in a grove of eucalyptus trees. In album: Rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California / compiled by Paul S. Taylor. 1935, [plate 21].

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...

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Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the...

Original negative missing. Title and other information from caption card. No electronic surrogate. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More ... More

More Oklahomans reach Calif. via the cotton fields of Ariz. ; "We got blowed out in Oklahoma." Share-croppers family near Bakersfield, Apr. 7, 1935

More Oklahomans reach Calif. via the cotton fields of Ariz. ; "We got ...

Photograph at top shows a car loaded with people, their belongings and supplies. Photo at bottom shows a woman and children sitting in the grass beside an automobile.

Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. A new home in California. Drought refugees from Colorado now making a new start in California. Living in Cotton Gardens

Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. A new home in California. Dro...

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Negro field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has just made himself shoes out of that old tire

Negro field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has jus...

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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mot...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/prin... More

Arkansas squatters. Three years in California. Near Bakersfield, California

Arkansas squatters. Three years in California. Near Bakersfield, Calif...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from the duplicate negative, not the original. Transfer; United States. Office... More

Mexican mother in California. "Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'" (Note on Mexican labor situation in repatriation.)

Mexican mother in California. "Sometimes I tell my children that I wou...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from record for item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number ... More

A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

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Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California

Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, Cali...

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Departure, gelatin silver print

Departure, gelatin silver print

Two passengers, first rural rehabilitation colonists from Minnesota, on the Army transport St. Mihiel, leaving San Francisco for Mantanuska Valley, Alaska. No. 2001. Lange for Resettlement Administration.

A black and white photo of an old building, Housing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

A black and white photo of an old building, Housing. Brawley, Imperial...

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Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants. Marysville, California

Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants. Marysville, California

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Imperial Valley, California, Mexican. He tells his story: he helped drive the French out of Mexico, fought against Maximilian, and he has, by serving the crops for many years, help build up Imperial Valley

Imperial Valley, California, Mexican. He tells his story: he helped dr...

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Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refuge...

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...

File print is reversed; printed backwards. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informati... More

Man with young boy in his arms, both wearing caps

Man with young boy in his arms, both wearing caps

Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 10.

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, e...

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Home in "Little Oklahoma," a community that has grown out of migrant potato and cotton workers. California

Home in "Little Oklahoma," a community that has grown out of migrant p...

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View of Kern migrant camp showing one of three sanitary units. California

View of Kern migrant camp showing one of three sanitary units. Califor...

Also knowd as Arvin or Weedpatch Federal migratory labor camp. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information abou... More

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas have been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rental eight dollars. Some of the houses have plumbing

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas...

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Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall, California. See card 1793 for detailed information

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall, Calif...

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Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California

Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River cam...

Additional information on caption card: See 9904-C [i.e. LC-USF34-009904-E]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washing... More

Freight car converted into house in "Little Oklahoma," California

Freight car converted into house in "Little Oklahoma," California

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Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees) between Bakersfield and Famoso, thirty-five miles, between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famos...

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"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

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Weighing in cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Weighing in cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

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Home of a family of native Californians, migratory workers. Near Porterville, California

Home of a family of native Californians, migratory workers. Near Porte...

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A black and white photo of a truck in a field, Salinas lettuce fields. California

A black and white photo of a truck in a field, Salinas lettuce fields....

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Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, Cali...

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Squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California. Note number of auto trailers and trailer being constructed on left

Squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California. Note number of au...

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Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

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Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California. The condition and plan of this camp show marked influences of Resettlement Administration camps for migrants in this community

Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California. The condition and ...

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Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

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Mexican cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Mexican cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

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Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, California

Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, California

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Pea pickers in California. "Mam, I've picked peas from Calipatria to Ukiah. This life is simplicity boiled down." California

Pea pickers in California. "Mam, I've picked peas from Calipatria to U...

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A couple of people standing outside of a small house, Kern County migrant camp. California

A couple of people standing outside of a small house, Kern County migr...

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

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Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

Additional information on caption card: See mount [i.e. print caption] for further information. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictur... More

Sanitary facilities for migratory workers. Ditch bank camp. Squatters near Arvin, Kern County, California

Sanitary facilities for migratory workers. Ditch bank camp. Squatters ...

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Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the American River. About thirty families lived on this flat

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the America...

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San Miguel Mission. Erected 1797 by the Franciscan Fathers. California

San Miguel Mission. Erected 1797 by the Franciscan Fathers. California

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each wit...

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Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Bean thresher. Mechanized agriculture between Turlock and Merced, California

Bean thresher. Mechanized agriculture between Turlock and Merced, Cali...

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Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Picking cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

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Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, Californi...

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Sugar beet field showing tractor with plowshare attached and Mexican operator. California

Sugar beet field showing tractor with plowshare attached and Mexican o...

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Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Loading cotton. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

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Opening of union cafe. Oakland, California. Photograph made day after 1936 Presidential election

Opening of union cafe. Oakland, California. Photograph made day after ...

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A black and white photo of a set of stairs, Mission District. San Francisco, California

A black and white photo of a set of stairs, Mission District. San Fran...

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"Little Oklahoma," the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato and cotton fields. California

"Little Oklahoma," the community that grew out of the need for help in...

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Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in Californi...

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Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

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Backyard. North Beach District (Italians). San Francisco, California

Backyard. North Beach District (Italians). San Francisco, California

Negative edge-numbered 2237-C. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is avai... More

Arkansas family in California. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Arkansas family in California. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publ...

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Rural Rehabilitation Administration client. Hayward, California

Rural Rehabilitation Administration client. Hayward, California

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average income eight hundred dollars yearly. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

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Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California

Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California

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Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San...

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

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House in "Little Oklahoma," California

House in "Little Oklahoma," California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seve...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of f...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for w...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information ... More

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Pickers in cotton field. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Pickers in cotton field. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly, pays fifteen dollars and twenty cents rent to apply on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in f...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Section of Kern migrant camp, California

Section of Kern migrant camp, California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

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