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"Home" of a migrant worker's family. Kern County, California. Lately came from Oklahoma

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"Home" of a migrant worker's family. Kern County, California. Lately came from Oklahoma

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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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01/01/1936

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Lange, Dorothea, photographer

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Kern City, 35.35385, -119.07344

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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

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