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Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California

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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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01/01/1937
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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california
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Library of Congress
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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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