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Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California
Great Depression
Refugee families near Holtville, California
Holtville, United States
Great Depression
Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. California
Riverside County, United States
Great Depression
automobile
Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks"
Calipatria, United States
Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop failures. Combined earnings, man and wife tying carrots: One dollar and twelve cents a day
farmer
Great Depression
automobile
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California
Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California
Calipatria, United States
Employment agency. San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency relief. Nine miles from Calipatria, California
Calipatria, United States
Great Depression
droughts
Date palms. Coachella Valley, California
Riverside County, United States
Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront. California
San Francisco, United States
Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, California
Holtville, United States
Great Depression
"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
Employment office on Howard Street. San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
Employment agency on Howard Street. San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
"Skid Row." Howard Street, the street of the unemployed in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
"Skid Row." Howard Street. San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
Scene along "Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
Unemployed men on Howard Street. San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
Unemployed men on Howard Street. San Francisco, California
San Francisco, United States
Howard Street in San Francisco, known as "Skid Row," the district of the unemployed
San Francisco, United States
Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce. Imperial Valley, California
Imperial County, United States
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California
Imperial County, United States