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Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

Refugee families near Holtville, California

Holtville, United States

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. California

Riverside County, United States

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

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

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

"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