California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

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Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

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Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. In the neighborhood where the Salvation Army operates. Breakfast for his pal, bummed from a restaurant

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Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

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Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

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Eight related persons just arriving in this roadster from Texas. In search of employment as pea pickers. On U.S. 80. Imperial Valley, California

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California.

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing. See card 1799-C for detailed information

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Christmas ceremonies at base of the "General Grant Tree" (The nation's Christmas tree), located in Kings Canyon, General Grant Park, California