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Drought refugee living in a camp on the bank of an irrigation ditch
Imperial County, United States
Great Depression
Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California
Holtville, United States
Great Depression
Former tenant farmers on relief
Imperial County, United States
farmer
Great Depression
Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California
Imperial County, United States
farmer
Great Depression
Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fields of California. Imperial Valley
Imperial County, United States
Great Depression
Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, California
Nipomo, United States
farmer
Great Depression
Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California
Great Depression
automobile
Picking peas near Nipomo, California. Wages: twenty-two cents a hamper
Nipomo, United States
Pea picker carrying a hamper of peas to the weighmaster. Nipomo, California
Nipomo, United States
Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers
Great Depression
Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California
Modesto, United States
Migratory Mexican field worker's home on the edge of a frozen pea field. Imperial Valley, California
Imperial County, United States
White section gang near King City, California. Before the depression this work was done entirely by Mexican labor
King City, United States
Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California
Kern County, United States
Great Depression
Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California
Kern County, United States
Great Depression
Porch of Mexican worker's home in East El Centro, Imperial Valley, California
El Centro, United States
Great Depression
porch
Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California
Imperial County, United States
Great Depression
Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway
Great Depression
Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway. U.S. 99
Great Depression
Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California
Great Depression
Migratory workers from Oklahoma washing in hot spring in the desert. Imperial Valley, California
Imperial County, United States
Great Depression
Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California
Tracy, United States
Great Depression
automobile
Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California
Indio, United States
Great Depression
Migrant agricultural worker in Holtville
Holtville, United States
Great Depression