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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte, United States

Oklahomians trying to make a new start in California. Near Los Angeles

Los Angeles, United States

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El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte, United States

in Greenville, Mississippi

Greenville, United States

in Greenville, Mississippi

Greenville, United States

in Greenville, Mississippi

Greenville, United States

in Greenville, Mississippi

Greenville, United States

Farmworkers' homes. Glendale, Arizona

Glendale, United States

Rehabilitation clients. Five miles outside Phoenix, Arizona. Five hundred dollar loan for poultry (considered a good loan)

Phoenix, United States

Resettled at Bosque Farms project. Family of four from Taos Junction shows temporary dwelling

Bosque Farms, United States

Temporary housing for the settlers. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico

Bosque Farms, United States

Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day

Bosque Farms, United States

Farm child. This family is now resettled on the Bosque Farms project. New Mexico

Bosque Farms, United States

Typical view of the rolling character of the area. Town of Mills in distance, New Mexico

Mills, United States

Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range

Mills, United States

Temporary home. These buildings to be remodeled later on for barns and outbuildings. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico

Bosque Farms, United States

Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico

Bosque Farms, United States

Leveling the land for irrigation on the Bosque Farms project. The tract of two thousand four hundred acres to be cultivated under irrigation. New Mexico

Bosque Farms, United States

A new start. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico

Bosque Farms, United States

Making adobe bricks. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico. These bricks are to be used in construction of the new school building

Bosque Farms, United States

adobe

Roadside camp near Bakersfield, California. "Come to California." The wordly posessions of refugees from Texas dust, drought and depression

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Bakersfield, United States

Great Depression