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Child of agricultural day laborer in tent home near Spiro, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

Child of agricultural day laborer in tent home near Spiro, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

Child of agricultural day laborer in tent home near Spiro, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

Children of agricultural day laborers camped by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. There were no beds and no protection from the profusion of flies

Baby of migrant agricultural day laborers asleep on the ground. There were no beds or cots in this camp near Spiro, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

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01/01/1939
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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A group of men standing next to a truck in a field, possibly related to: Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Son of agricultural day laborer examining cotton seed on front porch of home. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Coming home from the old camp ground

Living quarters, store, and "juke joint" for migratory laborers near Canal Point, Florida

Night in the courtyard of the old seminary of St. Sulspice. Refugees driven from their homes by the German guns are received, registered, fed, given beds and aided on their way to their destinations in various parts of France. The ARC helps in this work by contributing beds, food, clothes and workers

The Songs we sang upon the old camp ground

Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "I'm going west because this country's through, there isn't anything here for anyone. I'm going west to Lubbock and Arizona. Last year I worked in the cotton"

Child of family encamped by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family is doing agricultural day labor to secure funds to continue westward. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

A couple of people that are sitting on the ground. Office of War Information Photograph

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Mitsu Nakai and baby / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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