Loaded Cars Heading West

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

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type while driving thirty-five miles between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

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