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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

A black and white photo of a group of men - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938, for the first time the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938, for the first time the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938, for the first time the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

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Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1939
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Lange, Dorothea, 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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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

[Harvest at San Juan, New Mexico] / PM.

Canning plant employees grading beans. Dania, Florida. Many of these workers are migrants

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

Camp talent provides music for dancing at Shafter camp for migrants. Halloween party, Shafter, California

Richwood, West Virginia. These boys stayed at home when the special train left Richwood carrying agricultural workers to upper New York state to help in the harvest

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief "because he once lived there."

One of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

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

Pea pickers near Calipatria, California

Father and son building house on outskirts of Salinas, California. Settlement of recently migrated lettuce workers

Harrison panic. He makes way with the Cleveland surplus. Changes the form of debt statement to show a balance. Bankrupts the treasury and brings on the panic. The responsibility fixed. Out of his own mouth he is condemned. [n. p. 1893?].

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