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Water supply in a squatter camp near Calipatria is an open settling basin fed by an irrigation ditch

Calipatria, United States

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Santa Maria, United States

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"

Imperial County, United States

The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County, California

Imperial County, United States

Children of migrant agricultural workers in California

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

Woman in pea picker's camp. California. "I seen our corn dry up and blow over the fence back there in Oklahoma"

Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon

In Calipatria, California, where thousands of refugees congregate

Calipatria, United States

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent"

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Holtville, United States

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with his wife and four children

Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Southern California

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

Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp

Toward Los Angeles, California

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

Imperial County, United States

Woman in a California pea pickers' camp, mending the tent

The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

Kern County, United States