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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

Calipatria, United States

In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Row, Oklahoma

Holtville, United States

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Calipatria, United States

In a carrot pickers' camp, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Bow, Oklahoma. "Are you going to take my picture, wait till I get my hair combed"

Imperial County, United States

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Single men, itinerants with "bindles" waiting for the freight

Calipatria, United States

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

Kern County, United States

Migrants from the Southwest bring their institutions with them. Salinas Valley, California

Monterey County, United States

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

Greenfield, United States

Pea pickers line up on edge of field at weigh scale. Near Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Calipatria, United States

Camped on the flat. Family with five children, left their home in Texas in September 1938. They picked their way across the country in Texas and Arizona cotton. They had just entered California the night before. Near Holtville, Imperial County, California

Holtville, United States

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Melrose Mobile Home Park, United States

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 County, United States

Tenant Purchase applicants. Stockton, California

Stockton, United States

Farm woman. Stockton, California. Tenant Purchase applicant

Stockton, United States

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, California. This family has been granted an Farm Security Administration loan of thirteen hundred dollars after struggling for eleven years on sixteen acres of poor land

Tulare County, United States

News of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. San Francisco, California. Chinatown

San Francisco, United States

Farmyard of rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Tulare County, United States

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Kern County, United States

Family of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Tulare County, United States

Wife of Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Tulare County, United States

Family selected by Farm Security Administration for the Mineral King cooperative farm. Tulare County, California

Tulare County, United States

Morning mail at the Mineral King cooperative farm, Farm Security Administration, Tulare County, California. Old ranch house, California type, in the background. Buildings will be replaced by modern structures suitable to community farming

Tulare County, United States

Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm. Ten families are now established on this 500 acre ranch to be operated as a unit. (Farm Security Administration) Tulare County, California

Tulare County, United States