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Water barrels on plantation cabin in Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas

Bryan, United States

The town of Caddo in southeast Okalahoma

Caddo, United States

Home on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty dollars for that house. I pay six dollars rent a year, and have some chickens and a garden"

Atoka, United States

H.L. Mitchell, Secretary of Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Union headquarters, Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, United States

Colored laborers in Memphis, waiting at daylight in hopes of being transported to a cotton plantation for cotton chopping. Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, United States

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, United States

The town of Caddo, Oklahoma. Migrants leave the small towns as well as the farms of the southwest. This region is a source of many emigrants to the Pacific Coast

Caddo, United States

Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"

Tombstone, United States

Contour plowing on mechanized farms. Childress County, Texas Panhandle, Texas

Childress County, United States

Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in this group came from eight different states

Pinal County, United States

Home in a district from which many families immigrate West. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Tenant farm family

Sallisaw, United States

Tennessee highway sign. Cannon County, Tennessee

Cannon County, United States

Candidate for congress (General Walter Faulkner) and a Tennessee farmer. Crossville, Tennessee

Crossville, United States

Thousands of migrant workers are employed for harvesting the potato crop of Kern County, California

Kern County, United States

She awaits the international streetcar at a corner in El Paso, Texas to return across the bridge

El Paso, United States

Migrant agricultural workers, idle in town during the potato harvest. Shafter, California

Shafter, United States

Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees from the Southwest, Arizona is a stopping point on the way to California, where money can be made during the cotton harvest with which to continue the journey

Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in group came from eight different states

Pinal County, United States

Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned

Dalhart, United States

Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "I'm going west because this country's through, there isn't anything here for anyone. I'm going west to Lubbock and Arizona. Last year I worked in the cotton"

Atoka, United States

Southern Arizona, June 1938

Depression and drought struck towns as well as farms. Laborers, clerks, building tradesmen immigrated as well as farm people. Caddo, Oklahoma

Caddo, United States

Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, United States

McLennan County Courthouse just before the primary. Waco, Texas

Waco, United States