California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp at Farmersville, Tulare County for migratory agricultural workers. Migratory boys come to clinic for attention fo the resident nurse of the Agricultural Workers'

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Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Nursery school children with their teacher, who is assigned to the camp by Works Progress Administ

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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief gra

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Large-scale industrialized agriculture. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory workers packing peas for market on edge of pea field. This is an attempt to market a field pack, in contrast t

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Migrant children in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Note type of boots worn by boy shooting marbles which tell his state of origin. Near Calipatria, Imperial County, California

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Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost their farm and for the last three years "have been draggin' our children around California. We're a have-to case." Calipatria, Imperi

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Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency.) Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valle

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Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency.) Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valle

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On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on the relie