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Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new mi...

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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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Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of C...

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On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, Cali...

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to w...

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Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in Californi...

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Privy in cotton camp for migratory workers. California

Privy in cotton camp for migratory workers. California

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Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

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

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

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Migrant camp, California. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Migrant camp, California. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San...

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Destitute family. American River camp. Five children aged two to seventeen. Near Sacramento California

Destitute family. American River camp. Five children aged two to seven...

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Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California

Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California

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Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

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1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of oran...

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Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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A black and white photo of a group of people in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people in a factory, Florida. Fa...

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Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine"

Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp. "Yes'm we...

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Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency relief. Nine miles from Calipatria, California

Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadsi...

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Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, California

Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, Califo...

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Tent housing a family of four who will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. Imperial County, California

Tent housing a family of four who will be returned to Oklahoma by the ...

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Home of agricultural workers in Arizona. Two families live in this house.  They have been in Arizona for six months. Before that they worked in south Texas, picking cotton. "Blair had a farm near Blair, Texas but didn't get it paid for so we started our moving."  Near the Casa Grande project, Arizona

Home of agricultural workers in Arizona. Two families live in this hou...

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Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government ca...

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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

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

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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

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. W...

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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

Children of refugee families now on Works Progress Administration (WPA...

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

Sunday morning revival of the Victory through Christ Society. Dos Palo...

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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

Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from el...

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

Living conditions of the migrant agricultural workers on whom depend t...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridle...

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Bakersfield, California. Detail of church in rapidly growing addition of Bakersfield for colored people

Bakersfield, California. Detail of church in rapidly growing addition ...

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Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work  Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

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U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley, California, over which migrants travel back and forth

U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between L...

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

Camp of white migrants in the mesquite near Harlingen, Texas

Camp of white migrants in the mesquite near Harlingen, Texas

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Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

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Advertisement for current movie in town. The child is a flood refugee of March 1938 from southeast Missouri. Westley, California

Advertisement for current movie in town. The child is a flood refugee ...

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Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

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Corner in tent home of white migrants. Near Harlingen, Texas

Corner in tent home of white migrants. Near Harlingen, Texas

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A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of luggage, Texas, during Great Depression

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of luggage, Texas, during Gre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. From farm family originally in Missouri, then Iowa. Migrants to California

Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. Fr...

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

Camp of white migrants. Weslaco, Texas. See general caption

Camp of white migrants. Weslaco, Texas. See general caption

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Pea pickers' tent near San Jose, California

Pea pickers' tent near San Jose, California

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Migrants getting luggage aboard the truck which will take them from Belcross, North Carolina to another job at Onley, Virginia

Migrants getting luggage aboard the truck which will take them from Be...

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The cook of a crew of migrants packing her cooking utensils for a trip from Belcross, North Carolina to Onley, Virginia

The cook of a crew of migrants packing her cooking utensils for a trip...

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"Water." Southern California. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

"Water." Southern California. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publi...

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Florida migrants getting aboard the truck which will take them from Belcross, North Carolina to another job at Onley, Virginia

Florida migrants getting aboard the truck which will take them from Be...

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Baggage of migrants preparing to leave their house at Belcross, North Carolina for Onley, Virginia

Baggage of migrants preparing to leave their house at Belcross, North ...

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Migrants are taught handicraft work. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

Migrants are taught handicraft work. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, Cal...

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Cooking facilities for migrants during the strawberry season at Picket's Landing, Virginia

Cooking facilities for migrants during the strawberry season at Picket...

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Migrants getting the truck ready to leave Belcross, North Carolina to another job at Onley, Virginia

Migrants getting the truck ready to leave Belcross, North Carolina to ...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Migrants arriving from Florida

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thi...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr... More

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys over this ridge

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and ...

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The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa

The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa

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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...

Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://ww... More

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...

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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mot...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/prin... More

Mother of family camped near a creek bed, panning for gold. "Slept in a bed all my life long till now--sleeping on the ground." Near Redding, California

Mother of family camped near a creek bed, panning for gold. "Slept in ...

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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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Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Winters, California. He owns one acre subsistence farm near Porterville. Represented migratory laborers as speaker at Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (See published "Transactions" of the Club). Education: two years to University of Montana

Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Wint...

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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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Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, ne...

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

Home of Tennessee family of seven, now migratory workers living in camp outside of Sacramento, California. Father was coal miner in Tennessee but when the mines were not working received two days a week relief work. "Thought we could make it better out here"

Home of Tennessee family of seven, now migratory workers living in cam...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

California migrant camp. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

California migrant camp. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public dom...

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Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, California. American River camp

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, C...

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Migratory workers' "kitchen" near Shafter. Kern County, California. Squatters' camp

Migratory workers' "kitchen" near Shafter. Kern County, California. Sq...

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to w...

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A very blue eagle. Along California highway

A very blue eagle. Along California highway

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Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

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Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

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Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can't seem to accomplish nothin' there. Two year drought, then a crop, then two years drought and so on. I got two brothers still trying to make it back there and there they're sitting," said the father

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of Californi...

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Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico

Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico

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Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven ...

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Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

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Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, Californi...

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Note on "mobile housing." Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City. Man and wife, middle-aged, from Wisconsin to California. "Old Man Depression sent us out on the road. Been out two years. You don't know anything about how many people are living in trailers, till you 'hit' Florida"

Note on "mobile housing." Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near Ki...

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Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers' concentration camp in 1933 was in Corcoran

Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, Cal...

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Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

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Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. No...

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A group of women working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of women working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administ...

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Drought refugee children on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California

Drought refugee children on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California

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Camp of migratory workers. Imperial County, California

Camp of migratory workers. Imperial County, California

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Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. California

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the...

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Southern Arizona, June 1938

Southern Arizona, June 1938

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Southern Arizona, June 1938. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Southern Arizona, June 1938. Great Depression public domain photograph...

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Tranquillity, California. Sunday morning service. Migrants from the southwest bring their religions with them to California

Tranquillity, California. Sunday morning service. Migrants from the so...

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Arkansawyers auto camp. Ten cabins which rent for ten dollars a month with iron bed and electric light, one room. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Arkansawyers auto camp. Ten cabins which rent for ten dollars a month ...

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

Children of squatters and migrants living on Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi, Texas

Children of squatters and migrants living on Nueces Bay, Corpus Christ...

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Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuc...

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Tent home of migrants near Harlingen, Texas

Tent home of migrants near Harlingen, Texas

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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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Inside a pea picker's tent in the middle of the morning. No work. Santa Clara County, California

Inside a pea picker's tent in the middle of the morning. No work. Sant...

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

Migrant child sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

Migrant child sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

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On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not the old "Bindle-Stiff" type

On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not th...

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Agricultural day laborer wiping the sweat from his neck after his return home from chopping cotton.This man had once been a tenant farmer and had quit farming because of repeated crop failures and inability to secure good farming land; he then became a day laborer, his entire family working with him in the fields. They chopped cotton, hoed corn, picked cotton, cut spinach and picked up potatoes. However, because they had this established tent home on the banks of the Arkansas River and because they worked in and around this neighborhood, they considered themselves a class above the migrant workers who came in to harvest the crops.  This man had planted a small garden back of his tent not for the value of the garden since he said that the sun would get it before the vegetables were mature, but because it would prevent any of the migrant families from camping near them. He said, "Those migrants don't live the way we do, course they don't have anything to live with." Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Agricultural day laborer wiping the sweat from his neck after his retu...

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United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administrati...

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Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

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Water supply for ten cabins in Arkansawyers auto camp. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Water supply for ten cabins in Arkansawyers auto camp. Greenfield, Sal...

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Roadside used car display on State Highway 17, in season when migrants come into region for pea-picking. Santa Clara County, California

Roadside used car display on State Highway 17, in season when migrants...

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