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Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California

Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, Californ...

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Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California...

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Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a ...

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California migratory farm laborers, drought refugees from Oklahoma, camped in the brush on the river bottom with no water or sanitation. On the outskirts of Brawley. Imperial Valley, California

California migratory farm laborers, drought refugees from Oklahoma, ca...

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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

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

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Filipinos waiting for the signal to start cutting lettuce. Near Westmorland, Imperial Valley, California

Filipinos waiting for the signal to start cutting lettuce. Near Westmo...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carrot digger. Imperial Valley, California

Carrot digger. Imperial Valley, California

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Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, California

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, Cal...

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Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked...

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Migratory Mexican field worker's home on the edge of a frozen pea field. Imperial Valley, California

Migratory Mexican field worker's home on the edge of a frozen pea fiel...

Man holding baby, behind automobile, alongside of shack. Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daughter of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calpatria, Imperial Valley, California

Daughter of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) lab...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Question Mark" plane refueling over Imperial Valley

"Question Mark" plane refueling over Imperial Valley

Photograph shows a fuel line stretched between two airplanes in mid flight; one plane has a question mark painted on its side and the other has the number one. A47394 U.S. Copyright Office Similar to photo with... More

The slums of Brawley. Homes of Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

The slums of Brawley. Homes of Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley,...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pea fields of the Imperial Valley, California. Tamarisk trees are commonly planted along the irrigation ditches for shade so necessary in this desert valley. Note water barrels

Pea fields of the Imperial Valley, California. Tamarisk trees are comm...

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Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of...

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Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Row of tents, homes of pea pickers seem across recreational grounds. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Row...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Advertisement of the Imperial Valley, California, board of trade

Advertisement of the Imperial Valley, California, board of trade

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, Califor...

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Shaws Camp, Eastside High Line Canal, Imperial Valley, California

Shaws Camp, Eastside High Line Canal, Imperial Valley, California

J170559 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; S. U. Bunnell; March 25, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44584. Copyright claimant's address: Pasadena, Cal. No. 625.

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, Califor...

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The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Valley, California. Planting cantaloupe

The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Vall...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, Califor...

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Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fields of California. Imperial Valley

Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fi...

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One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants at thirty cents an hour; the young plants are capped with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding canta...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, California

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, Cal...

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

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

California migratory farm laborers, drought refugees from Oklahoma, camped in the brush on the river bottom with no water or sanitation. On the outskirts of Brawley. Imperial Valley, California

California migratory farm laborers, drought refugees from Oklahoma, ca...

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

Large-scale industrialized agriculture. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory workers packing peas for market on edge of pea field. This is an attempt to market a field pack, in contrast to usual pack in shed

Large-scale industrialized agriculture. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, C...

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One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker. Near Calipatria, Imperial...

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U.S. 99. Near Tulare, California. Entered California fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke-down. "Want to get back to Missouri if they can ever get the money."

U.S. 99. Near Tulare, California. Entered California fall of 1938. En-...

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Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). This camp was established for the spring pea harvest. 155 families were living on the site two weeks after the camp was opened. Photograph shows two trailers recently purchased. One to be used as living quarters, office and headquarters for the camp manager (FSA). The other for health services. These trailers will follow the harvests as part of a mobile emergency camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). T...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has just made himself shoes out of that old tire

Negro field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has jus...

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

Imperial Valley, California, Mexican. He tells his story: he helped drive the French out of Mexico, fought against Maximilian, and he has, by serving the crops for many years, help build up Imperial Valley

Imperial Valley, California, Mexican. He tells his story: he helped dr...

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Slums of Brawley. Mexican field workers' homes. Imperial Valley, California

Slums of Brawley. Mexican field workers' homes. Imperial Valley, Calif...

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Cabbage harvesting. Imperial Valley, California

Cabbage harvesting. Imperial Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of...

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

Mexican gang labor. Cantaloupe workers. Imperial Valley, California

Mexican gang labor. Cantaloupe workers. Imperial Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. Form these earnings had to provide their transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling.She says, "I want to go back to where we can live happym live decent, and grow what we eat." He says, "We can't go the way I am now. We've got nothing in the world to farm with. I made my mistake when I came out here."

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Car on siding across tracks from pea packing plant. Twenty-five year old itinerant, originally from Oregon. "On the road eight years, all over the country, every state in the union, back and forth, pick up a job here and there, travelling all the time." Calipatria, Imperial Valley

Car on siding across tracks from pea packing plant. Twenty-five year o...

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On U.S. 99. in Kern County on the Tehachapi Ridge. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial Valley and the San Joaquin Valley over this ridge

On U.S. 99. in Kern County on the Tehachapi Ridge. Migrants travel sea...

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Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This single California County (Monterey) shipped 20,096 carlots of lettuce in 1934, or forty-five percent of all carlot shipments in the United States. In the same year 73.8 percent of all United States carlot shipments were made from Monterey County, Imperial Valley, California (7,797 carlots) and Maricopa County, Arizona (4,697). Production of lettuce is largely in the hands of a comparatively small number of grower-shippers, many of whom operate in two or all three of these Counties. Labor is principally Mexican and Filipino in the fields, and white American in the packing sheds. Many workers follow the harvests from one valley to the other, since plantings are staggered to maintain a fairly even flow of lettuce to the Eastern markey throughout the year

Salinas Valley, California. Large scale, commercial agriculture. This ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Visiting public health doctor conducts well-baby clinic in local school building adjacent to pea harvest. Many migratory mothers attend

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Visiting public health doctor conducts we...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Homes of Mexican field workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Homes of Mexican field workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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No garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

No garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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Mexican field worker, father of six. Imperial Valley, Riverside County, California

Mexican field worker, father of six. Imperial Valley, Riverside County...

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Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

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Mail boxes and irrigation gates. Imperial Valley, California

Mail boxes and irrigation gates. Imperial Valley, California

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Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California

Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, Calif...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers' camps in Imperial Valley and elsewhere have been much improved this year largely because of influence of Farm Security Administion (FSA) migrant camp program. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers...

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

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Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per c...

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Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, California

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, Cal...

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Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, Californ...

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Field workers harvest onions in the Imperial Valley, El Centro, California

Field workers harvest onions in the Imperial Valley, El Centro, Califo...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, Califor...

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Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

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Drinking water for field worker's family. Imperial Valley, California, near El Centro

Drinking water for field worker's family. Imperial Valley, California,...

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Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. Imperial Valley, California

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp. One third had no work; two-thirds were finding part-time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) four dollars and twenty cents a week

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imp...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke down. "Want to get back to Missouri if they ever get the money." U.S. 99. Tulare, California

Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperi...

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Near Holtville, Imperial Valley. Again the covered wagon. In migratory carrot puller's camp

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley. Again the covered wagon. In migratory...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

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"Question Mark" plane refueling over Imperial Valley

"Question Mark" plane refueling over Imperial Valley

Photograph shows a fuel line stretched between two airplanes in mid flight; one plane has a question mark painted on its side and the other has the number one. "Erickson 6337." Similar to photo with copy negat... More

Housing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Housing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley

Calipatria, Imperial Valley

Migrant woman standing in doorway of shack. Photoprint by Dorothea Lange. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Migrant workers.

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, California

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, Cal...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a ...

Additional information on caption card: See card 16168-C [i.e. LC-USF34-016168-C] for details. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture... More

Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California

Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California

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Mexicans picking cantaloupes one mile north of the Mexican border. Imperial Valley, Califoria. 6:00 a.m. This is highly skilled labor

Mexicans picking cantaloupes one mile north of the Mexican border. Imp...

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Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers. They rent for eight dollars a month. Imperial Valley

Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers...

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

Hobo wakes up early in the morning from his bed alongside a corral. Imperial Valley, California

Hobo wakes up early in the morning from his bed alongside a corral. Im...

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Pea picker. Imperial Valley, California

Pea picker. Imperial Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of ajoining grocery and general store who allows workers to camp here rent-free. Approximately sixty families were living in camp

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing d...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tying carrots in Imperial Valley. Near Meloland, California

Tying carrots in Imperial Valley. Near Meloland, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). C...

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Sanitary facilities in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California

Sanitary facilities in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville, Imperia...

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

Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost their farm and for the last three years "have been draggin' our children around California. We're a have-to case." Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Texas woman in carrot pullers' camp. Imperial Valley, California. This sunbonnet is typical of women who came from Texas

Texas woman in carrot pullers' camp. Imperial Valley, California. This...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Filipino lettuce field laborer. Imperial Valley, California

Filipino lettuce field laborer. Imperial Valley, California

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

Mexican girl who picks peas for the eastern market. Imperial Valley, California

Mexican girl who picks peas for the eastern market. Imperial Valley, C...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Looking into "The Hollow of God's Hand", San Diego, Imperial Valley, Yuma, Coast to Coast Highway

Looking into "The Hollow of God's Hand", San Diego, Imperial Valley, Y...

J179580 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; S. U. Bunnell; March 25, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44584. Copyright claimant's address: Pasadena, Cal. No. 627.

Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial V...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. T...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three carloads of Mexicans headed for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfield, California

Three carloads of Mexicans headed for the Imperial Valley to harvest p...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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