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Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

Buttonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers camp, after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and for pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

Buttonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers camp, after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and for pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

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Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters

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

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01/01/1939
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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Buttonwillow ,  35.40052, -119.46956
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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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california kern county buttonwillow migrant camps nitrate negatives bottonwillow company cotton pickers cotton pickers camp season families tag ends tag ends bolls lack winter quarters great depression photographs great depression united states history library of congress