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Along U.S. Highway 99. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

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Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms, duststorms, insects. They'll all be here in another year or two. People exist here and they can't do that there. You can make it here if you sleep late and eat little, but it's pretty tough--there's so many people"

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Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful

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Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

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Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. Gang labor. Harvests on contract by the crate. On these large ranches immediately adjacent to the border, Mexican pickers cross daily into the United States to work. Imperial Valley has developed large-scale farming and migratory labor in the most extreme form

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Orange pickers' camp. Tulare County, California. Rent one dollar per week

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Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war

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Near Brentwood, California. Winter quarters of migrants. Agricultural laborers

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A black and white photo of a man and a woman on a swing, Weighing cotton. Kern County, California

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

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Young girl, migratory worker, beside the tent in which she lives. Kern County, California

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Sunday morning revival of the Victory through Christ Society. Dos Palos, California

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

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Cotton picker during strike carrying his Farm Security Administration grant of food and necessities from warehouse to Farm Security Administration Shafter camp for migrants, where he lives with his family. Bakersfield, California

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Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

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From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California. Cotton strike (Nov. 1938). He displays his union membership book. "Vote No on No. 1" refers to proposed anti-picketing law which was later defeated by California electorate. Kern County, California

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One faucet by the packing sheds is the only source of water for 150-200 families camped in the brush waiting for the potato harvest to open. Edison, California

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Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs on the plains, in the brush, and in many cheap auto trailer camps of Kern County, California, reflect the shortage of housing for low income workers

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Mexican grandmother who migrates with large family each year from Glendale, Arizona, following crops thru California and return. Here shown harvesting tomatoes, Santa Clara Valley, California

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds. Strikers organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations union (CIO) demand one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

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Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California. They are paid senty-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton

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Pea pickers at work. San Luis Obispo County, California

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Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration). "I was on this here project, Work Projects Administration, at twenty-three dollars and ten cents in Durant, Oklahoma. I sold a cow to get here. I'd go back tomorrow if I could. The project over there? I wouldn't like it. Your chickens would get all mixed up with the other peoples, and then there'd be trouble. It's kind of socialism over there"

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Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California. Saying: "Brother, 'Hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or starve. Brother, 'hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or else"

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Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from eleven states are camped in the brush along the highway. No water, no toilets provided. This is a newly developed potato area. Large scale industrialized farming, 3000 additional acres under cultivation this year for the first time. Seven miles east of Bakersfield, California

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Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

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Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers on the edge of the field. They wait their turn for weighing. Near Westley, California

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Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. Gang labor harvest on contract by the crate

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Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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Loading baled cotton in yard outside the Kaweah Delta Cooperative gin. Tulare County, California

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

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Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton pickers' strike

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Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike. Bakersfield, California

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Squatter camp on the flat where families live during the orange picking season. Near Porterville, California

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Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

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Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's studies on Industrial Workers of the World

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Cantaloupe field and ranch house. Imperial Valley, California. Desert agriculture on the Mexican border. Large-scale corporation farming, Mexican labor

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Squatters in the brush near Wasco, California

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Emptying cotton after weighing. Small cotton farm. Kern County, California

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Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's "Studies on IWW"

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Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

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Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in California. Kern County

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November 14, 1938. Near Half Moon Bay, California. Artichoke ranch

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Living conditions of workers in agriculture on whom depend the crops of California. Family of migratory cotton pickers, originally from Oklahoma, living in abandoned cow barn. Note bed in corner. Kern County, California

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The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no sanitation for the families who camp here during the potato harvesting season. When the season is over they move on. The tin cans and rubbish remain

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Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938. Bakersfield, California

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Tulare County, California. Living conditions of migrant agricultural workers on whom the crops of California depend

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Combine harvester in California. Wheat field. San Joaquin Valley

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Tulare cooperative cotton gin, Tulare County, California. There are three such cooperatives in the southern California cotton industry

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Camp of migrant agricultural workers along the highway in California. This signboard is used as a windbreak

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Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO) talks to mixed crowd. The strike failed

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Kaweah Delta Cooperative cotton gin. Tulare County, California

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Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California

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Children of refugee families now on Works Progress Administration (WPA). They live in tents on the flats outside of Bakersfield, California

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Mexican cantaloupe pickers. Gang labor. Imperial Valley, California

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Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care: Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place"

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Living conditions of the migrant agricultural workers on whom depend the crops of California. Tulare County

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Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain. Kern County, California

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Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers on the edge of the field. They wait their turn for weighing. Near Westley, California

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Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO) talks to mixed crowd. The strike failed

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Women packing apricots in large open sheds adjoining the orchards. Brentwood, California

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Thousands of migrant workers are employed for harvesting the potato crop of Kern County, California

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During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant. Shafter, California

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Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds. Took three hours to pick, for which, on basis of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton, he will be paid thirty-eight cents

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

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Car trouble on west side, Highway no. 33. In San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer, now with wife, he follows the fruit. "My uncle homesteaded here sixty years ago. I'm lower on money than at any time"

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Car trouble on west side of Highway No. 33 in San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer. Now with his wife, he follows the fruit. "My uncle homesteaded here sixty years ago. I'm lower on money than at any time." A veteran of the the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) engineers. He searches his trunk and produces snapshots of the AEF, including Pershing reviewing the troops in Germany. San Joaquin Valley, California

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Weighing baled cotton as it leaves the gin. Kaweah Delta Cooperative gin, Tulare County, California

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Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant agricultural worker on strike for wage increase in cotton. Bakersfield, California

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Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, which took place just before the election. Kern County, California

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

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During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

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Bakersfield, California. Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) "grant" office during cotton pickers' strike

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Kern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at eleven a.m. Stopped from further work for the day by rain

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Mexicans, field laborers, on strike in cotton picking season, apply to Farm Security Administration (FSA) for relief. Bakersfield, California

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Cotton bales in gin yard outside Bakersfield, California. Cotton has been produced commercially in California since 1909. In 1936 California produced 3.3% of the cotton in United States

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Kaweah Delta Cooperative cotton gin and yard. Tulare County, California. There are three such cooperatives in the southern cotton industry

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Auto camp which rents tent space where migrant citrus workers live. Tulare County, California

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Women packing apricots in large open sheds adjoining the orchards. Brentwood, California

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Mexican gang labor. Cantaloupe workers. Imperial Valley, California

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Near Stockton, California. November 17, 1938. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead Jones Act. "When a feller is in for himself, if he makes it, it's his. If he don't make it, it's his fault alone." (Tenant Purchase)

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Mexican cantaloupe worker at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California

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Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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Listening to the speaker at the conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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Migrant agricultural workers, idle in town during the potato harvest. Shafter, California

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Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California

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Near Half Moon Bay, California coast. Artichoke farms reach to the water's edge

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Lemon picking in southern California. Riverside County

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Baled cotton as it leaves the cotton gin. Kaweah Delta Cooperative gin. Tulare County, California

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Outside the Labor Temple where the conference called by the Steinbeck Committee during the cotton strike is being held. Bakersfield, California

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Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families. Bakersfield, California

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Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain. Kern County, California

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Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

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Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

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Colored itinerants on oil tank cars passing through Kingsbury, California

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Loading cotton after weighing. San Joaquin Valley, California

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

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Scene in Shafter, richest potato-producing area in California

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi More