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Bean thresher. Mechanized agriculture between Turlock and Merced, California

Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California

Stockton, United States

Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma. Now living in Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California. The condition and plan of this camp show marked influences of Resettlement Administration camps for migrants in this community

Great Depression

Migratory woman, Greek, living in a cotton camp near Exeter, California

Exeter, United States

Great Depression

To serve the crops of California, thousands of families live on wheels. Near Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Three carloads of Mexicans headed for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfield, California

Great Depression automobile

Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Tulare, United States

Great Depression automobile

Son of depression refugee from Oklahoma now in California

Great Depression

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee and her four sons. California

Kern County, United States

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Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family. California

Kern County, United States

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Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the members. California

Kern County, United States

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Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mother and child

Kern County, United States

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Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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General view of Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Section of Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Young cotton picker. Kern County migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Cotton picker on her way to the cotton field. Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Migrant cotton picker on way to field. Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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View of Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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