California Historic photos, documents, and people

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One of North American's women employees operates a pneumatic numbering machine in the sheet metal department. All items are given index numbers

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Hasty messenger #2. See night messenger report. Location: Sacramento, California / Lewis W. Hine.

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Salinas Valley, California. A young guayule field at the end of the first growing season. The plants were transplanted from the nursery in May

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Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. From farm family originally in Missouri, then Iowa. Migrants to California

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Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. From farm family originally in Missouri, then Iowa. Migrants to California

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

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Every payday, checks are passed out to employees at their work. This prevents employees standing in long lines after work for their paychecks

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Thousands of North American employees gather on the flight ramp during their lunch hour to see a special performance of the planes they built

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Mexicans, field laborers, on strike in cotton picking season, apply to Farm Security Administration (FSA) for relief. Bakersfield, California