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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

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Former tenant farmers on relief

Imperial County, United States

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Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

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Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fields of California. Imperial Valley

Imperial County, United States

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Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, California

Nipomo, United States

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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

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Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Kern County, United States

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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

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Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway

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Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

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Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

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Migratory workers from Oklahoma washing in hot spring in the desert. Imperial Valley, California

Imperial County, United States

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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

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Migrant agricultural worker in Holtville

Holtville, United States

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