California Historic photos, documents, and people

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"Red Line" messenger service. See night messenger report. Location: Sacramento, California / Lewis W. Hine.

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A man and woman employee on North American's P-51 fighter final assembly line check their day's work on a "sign-off" sheet as each assembly is completed

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Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Self-denial. Each member of the army is a quota, and chooses means of self-denial by which he saves his quota

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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

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Housing for migratory workers in cotton, five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers' concentration camp in 1933 was at Corcoran camp

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Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part of the child welfare program at the Resettlement Administration camp. California

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Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. They receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds

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A vairety of programs are presented to North American employees during their lunch period. Here thousands watch a boxing match between two employees

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Drinking water for the whole town, also for the migrant camp across the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See caption numbers 63-1 and 44