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Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

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Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into California. U.S. 80 / Dorothea Lange, 1935.

Photograph shows cars crossing a bridge with a sign with the word "Yuma" on the top.

Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. A new home in California. Drought refugees from Colorado now making a new start in California. Living in Cotton Gardens.

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

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On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

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Roadside camp near Bakersfield, California. "Come to California." The wordly posessions of refugees from Texas dust, drought and depression

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

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Dr. Tugwell and Chairman Cooke of the drought committee look at a nest of barbed wire in Texas dust bowl. President's report

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Mike Sullinger, who has a farm near Carson, North Dakota, looking for rain

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Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

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Dr. Tugwell. Bismarck, North Dakota

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Drought refugees from South Dakota. Montana

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Dr. Tugwell visiting rehabilitation client's home. Baca County, Colorado

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President Roosevelt with rehabilitation client. Mandan, North Dakota

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Oregon or bust. Leaving South Dakota for a new start in the Pacific Northwest

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Drought refugees from South Dakota on highway making sure that nothing falls off the trailer to the Pacific Coast. Montana

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Drought refugees from North Dakota

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1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

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California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

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Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll"

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Dr. Tugwell at reception for President Roosevelt. Bismarck, North Dakota

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Drought refugees. California. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees) between Bakersfield and Famoso, thirty-five miles, between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

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Texas drought refugees in cotton camp near Exeter, California

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Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

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Drought refugees from Glendive, Montana, leaving for Washington

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

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Auction sale notice. New Hradec (vicinity), North Dakota

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Mr. Page and Colonel Harrington of drought committee at farm near Guymon, Oklahoma

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Everyday from twenty to thirty cars moving out from the Dakotas pass the Montana Highway Department's port of entry. Montana

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Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can't seem to accomplish nothin' there. Two year drought, then a crop, then two years drought and so on. I got two brothers still trying to make it back there and there they're sitting," said the father

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Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

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Dr. Cooke, chairman of drought committee, at abandoned farm near Guymon, Oklahoma. President's report

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Vernon Evans and family of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana. Leaving the grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington. Expects to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Makes about two hundred miles a day in Model T Ford. Live in tent

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Part of the daily motorcade of drought refugees. The Montana-North Dakota state line

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President Roosevelt speaking from train. Bismarck, North Dakota

Photo shows U.S. Secret Service agent William "Bill" Simmons, bottom left (Source: Secret Service archivist, 2012)

Meeting on courthouse steps. Baca County, Colorado. Drought committee

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Farmer near Beach, North Dakota, sitting in his empty barn

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

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Farmers of Springfield, Colorado, listen attentively to H.H. Bennett of drought committee

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Vernon Evans and family of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana, Highway 10. Leaving the grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon and Washington. Expect to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Make about two hundred miles a day in Model T Ford. Live in tent

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Farmer of the drought area. Beach, North Dakota

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Drought committee stops for drink at artesian well on farm near Broadus, Montana

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1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

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Stranded in southern California. Belongings of Oklahoma drought refugees camped alongside the road

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California

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Drought refugees in California migrant camp

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Drought committee visits a stock water dam near Gillette, Wyoming

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Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tennessee ex-farmers drifting around, looking for work in cotton

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North Dakota farm family moving to Idaho at port of entry near Miles City, Montana

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Morris Cooke and Colonel Harrington inspect a stock water dam. Campbell County, Wyoming

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A little water for a thirsty land. Drought committee inspects artesian well irrigation project. Baca County, Colorado

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Drought committee has informal discussion with farmers of Gillette, Wyoming

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Dr. Tugwell and friends. Bismarck, North Dakota

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Dr. Tugwell and farmer of dust bowl area in Texas Panhandle. President's report

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Three members of drought committee: Tugwell, Cooke and Moore. Colorado

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Secretary Wallace at Bismarck, North Dakota

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Rehabilitation client's home. Powder River County, Montana

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Dr. Gray at rehabilitation client's home. Powder River County, Montana

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Dr. Tugwell at ranch near Broadus, Montana

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Dr. Tugwell talks to worker on resettlement project. Campbell County, Wyoming

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Dr. Tugwell confers with farmer on lawn of courthouse. Springfield, Colorado

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Drought committee meeting. Scott City, Kansas. Presidential report

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President Roosevelt speaking at Bismarck, North Dakota

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Doctor Tugwell visiting rehabilitation client's home. South Dakota

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Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

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Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll"

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