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Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Housing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

A black and white photo of an old building, Housing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Pea picker. Imperial Valley, California

Garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

The Salton Sea, California's Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley. Mexican field workers' homes. Imperial Valley, California

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

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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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california imperial county brawley migrants safety film negatives slums imperial valley great depression great depression photographs united states history library of congress
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Date

01/01/1936
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Contributors

Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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Location

brawley
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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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

label_outline Explore Brawley, Slums, Imperial County

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

Spectators at the Point to Point cup race of the Maryland Hunt Club. Worthington Valley, near Glyndon, Maryland

Good roads and land with houses. Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Exhibit of grapefruit at the Imperial County Fair, California

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

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

[The mosque of the Imperial School of Engineering] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering.

Children of migrants sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

U.S. 99. On ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley over which migrants travel back and forth

Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The child is a flood refugee of March 1939 from southeast Missouri

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

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california imperial county brawley migrants safety film negatives slums imperial valley great depression great depression photographs united states history library of congress