Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road occasionally as migrant workers. They have been to Arizona several times to pick cotton. The man went there this fall. In this picture they are picking overipe fruit that they picked up at vegetable packing places
Summary
Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1939
Contributors
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Location
Oklahoma City (Okla.), 35.46750, -97.51639
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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