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Company housing for Mexican cotton pickers, showing the San Joaquin Valley in the background. South of Corcoran, California

Corcoran, United States

Great Depression company dwelling

1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

Porterville, United States

Great Depression

Scene in railroad yard. Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

On the sun side of the shed. Transient men, San Francisco, California

San Francisco, United States

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Great Depression

Drought refugees in California migrant camp

Great Depression

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California

Fresno, United States

Great Depression

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

migrant camps

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

barber migrant camps migrant worker

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

Kern County, United States

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

Kern County, United States

migrant camps migrant worker

The windshield of a migratory agricultural laborer's car, in a squatter camp near Sacramento, California

Sacramento, United States

Great Depression

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California

Great Depression

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

Great Depression

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento, California. The boy has dysentery. See mount 9921-C

Great Depression

An evicted Arkansas sharecropper now settled at Hill House, Mississippi

Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas

droughts

Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma drought farmers. "Nothing to do. These fellers," said one of them, "are goin' to stay right here till they dry up and die too"

Sallisaw, United States

Farmers. Main street in Oklahoma town. Drought region

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Drought farmers come to town. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Sallisaw, United States

farmer

Main street during 1936 drought. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Sallisaw, United States