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Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. In grower's camp for migrant labor on the edge of the pea fields. Public health nurse interviews and advises prospective mother, aged seventeen, before arrival of first baby. Husband, aged twenty-three, is out picking. Made seventy-three cents this morning

Quaint dairy maids delivering milk in earthenware jars suspended on poles, Kiev, Russia

San Juan, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area known as El Fangitto

Southeast Missouri Farms. Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client feeding chickens

A black and white photo of two men sitting on a large rock, possibly related to: Boys on sacks of wool, Malheur County, Oregon

A group of people standing around a tent. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

Southeast Missouri Farms. Family of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client shredding cabbage

Southeast Missouri Farms. Family of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client shredding cabbage

Camp of pickers during bean harvest. Oregon, Marion County, West Stayton. See general caption number 46

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Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. In grower's camp for migrant labor on the edge of the pea fields. Public health nurse interviews and advises prospective mother, aged seventeen, before arrival of first baby. Husband, aged twenty-three, is out picking. Made seventy-three cents this morning

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Farmer from Nebraska in emergency camp for migratory workers during pea harvesting says "I put mine in what I thought was the best investment -- the good old earth--but we lost on that, too. The finance company caught up with us, the mortgage company caught up with us. Managed to lose twelve thousand dollars in three years. My boys have no more future than I have so far as I can see ahead." He had been on the road a little less than a year. Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of adjoining grocery and general store who allows workers to camp here rent-free. Approximately sixty families were living in camp here

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of adjoining grocery and general store who allows workers to camp here rent-free. Approximately sixty families were living in camp here

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

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

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Visiting public health doctor conducts well-baby clinic in local school building adjacent to pea harvest. Many migratory mothers attend

Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. In grower's camp for migrant labor on the edge of the pea fields. Public health nurse interviews and advises prospective mother, aged seventeen, before arrival of first baby. Husband, aged twenty-three, is out picking. Made seventy-three cents this morning

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01/01/1939
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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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Near San Juan Bautista. Large-scale pea field. California

High point in the student nurse's career is the meaningful "capping" ceremony which takes place after students have completed the preliminary portion of their training. Here, Frances Bullock, nineteen-year-old student nurse, receives her cap

Mrs. Tony Totore or Totoro?, 428 E. 116th St. 2nd floor back, makes from $2.00 to $2.50 a week making lace for a Contracter, Mrs. Rosina Schiaffo, 301 E 114th St, 3rd floor. Mrs. Sohiaffo, in turn, sends her lace to a manufacturer, M. Weber Co., 230 E 52nd St. Husband and two children, 4 and 7 yrs. Old. Mrs. Totoro said, "I rather work for a factory. They pay more." Husband is a cement laborer with irregular work. Location: New York, New York (State)

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers' camps in Imperial Valley and elsewhere have been much improved this year largely because of influence of Farm Security Administion (FSA) migrant camp program. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Washington, D.C. Jewal Mazique [i.e. Jewel], worker at the Library of Congress, getting dinner for her husband who interns at Howard University Hospital

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

One way to keep the children out of the mill. Mrs. D.E. Hudson, South Boston, Virginia Her children are seated around her. In the chairs are some of her boarders. Children are well-kept. The home showed her thrift. Husband is in the cotton mill. Location: South Boston, Virginia.

High school boys and girls get in trucks to go to pea fields. Nampa, Idaho

Water supply: an open settling basin from the irrigation ditch in a California squatter camp near Calipatria

Negro intrastate migrant worker, Italian grower and his wife picking berries in field near Hammond, Louisiana

Mrs. William Sharrard and one of her children. Her husband has been a farmer of the cut-over regions for years, but cannot make a living at it. The family is on relief. Near Silk Lake, Michigan

Labor contractor's crew at work in pea fields. Nampa, Idaho

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