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Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or two at a time gave them enough for food and gas to continue. On this day, they were within a day's travel of their destination, Bakersfield, California. Their car had broken down en route and was abandoned

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
House which adjoins that of family described in 19553-E. There are approximately one hundred such homes, each with about an acre at Highway City, California, which show various degrees of ability in self resettlement. Nearly all are on Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
House which adjoins that of family described in 19553-E. There are approximately one hundred such homes, each with about an acre at Highway City, California, which show various degrees of ability in self resettlement. Nearly all are on Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More