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Mexican mother in California. "Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'" (Note on Mexican labor situation in repatriation.)

Mexican mother in California. "Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'" (Note on Mexican labor situation in repatriation.)

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"

Off for the melon fields (Mexican labor). Imperial Valley, California

Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton

field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has just made himself shoes out of that old tire

Holtville, United States

The town of Mills, New Mexico. The grain elevator in background at right has been long ago abandoned. The bank is closed

Mills, United States

Ideal grazing conditions are afforded by this area if it is properly utilized. Overgrazing has depleted natural forage until feeding scenes like this are common. Mew Mexico

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement

Mills, United States

Stand of vega grass eaten off close. In good seasons hay can be cut from areas like this. New Mexico

Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California

Shafter, United States

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico

Mills, United States

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mills, New Mexico

Mills, United States

A corral practically buried by drifted dust. Mills, New Mexico. Therefore, the fertile top soil of a grazing area cannot be utilized

Mills, United States

These farm implements should never have been used for they destroyed a naturally rich grazing area. Mills, New Mexico

Mills, United States

Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico

Mills, United States

Mother of family camped near a creek bed, panning for gold. "Slept in a bed all my life long till now--sleeping on the ground." Near Redding, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Water." Southern California

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission