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View of Kern migrant camp showing one of three sanitary units. California

Kern County, United States

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View of Kern migrant camp showing outdoor clubroom with protection from the sun. California

Kern County, United States

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View of Kern County migrant camp showing community garden plots. California

Kern County, United States

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View of Kern migrant camp, community center at left. California

Kern County, United States

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Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Kern County, United States

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Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), California. She receives daily visits from the county nurse. Her husband works in the cotton field and can pick one hundred pounds a day

Kern County, United States

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Nursery. Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in nursery school under trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in nursery school under trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Preschool children in nursery school under supervision of trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the American River. About thirty families lived on this flat

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves

Porterville, United States

Great Depression

Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression coal mining

Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in the American River Camp near Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression coal mining

Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Have worked in the fruit since 1931. "We don't make a living, but we live on what we make"

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Child of migratory worker. American River camp near Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Daughter of a migrant fruit worker. American River camp outside of Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California. Five children, aged two to seventeen years

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Destitute family. American River camp. Five children aged two to seventeen. Near Sacramento California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Children of destitute family. American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Migratory orange picker's camp. Exeter, California

Exeter, United States

Great Depression

Sanitary facilities for migratory workers. Ditch bank camp. Squatters near Arvin, Kern County, California

Arvin, United States

Great Depression

Dirty clothes and flies. American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression