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Near San Juan Bautista. Large-scale pea field. California

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Gathering guayule seed with a vacuum machine

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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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01/01/1941
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, 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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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

Farm, farm workers, Mt. Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Near San Juan Bautista. Large-scale pea field. California

Studying why fruits taste that way. E.K. Nelson of the Department of Agriculture is shown making tests with an apparatus which the Department imported from Germany for the purpose of studying the essential oils or "flavor-giving" content of fruits and vegetables. At present chemists are acquainted with the essential oils of only a few fruits, such as some of the citrus group. The apparatus is a vacuum distill which permits the distillation of liquids at temperatures much lower than usual by reducing the pressure, 1/10/31

Salinas, California. Irrigator in guayule nursery

San Benito County, California. A Japanese-American waiting for final evacuation orders

Jackson Street Shops, Machine Shop, Jackson Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN

View from the Top of the Mark Restaurant at the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel located on Nob Hill, San Francisco, California

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas, under United States Army war emergency order. Farmer inspecting farm equipment which Japanese farmer wants to sell before he is evacuated

Los Angeles County, California. Japanese farmer working his crops while waiting for evacuation from West coast area under United States Army war emergency orders

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