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Inside the Kern County FSA Camp

August 24, 2017

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California

View of Kern migrant camp, California

View of Kern migrant camp showing one of three sanitary units. California

View of Kern migrant camp showing outdoor clubroom with protection from the sun. California

View of Kern County migrant camp showing community garden plots. California

View of Kern migrant camp, community center at left. California

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), California. She receives daily visits from the county nurse. Her husband works in the cotton field and can pick one hundred pounds a day

Nursery. Kern migrant camp, California

While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in nursery school under trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California

While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in nursery school under trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California

Preschool children in nursery school under supervision of trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Aged woman with three of her twenty-two grandchildren, Kern county migrant camp, California

View of Kern County migrant camp. California

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