California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

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

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On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

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Single man, three weeks before opening of Klamath Basin potato harvest. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake. See general caption number 43

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers. Leave the field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

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Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. This is a proposed location of Resettlement Administration migrant camp

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P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif.

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"Power of the Lord" preaching by a "soldier" saved twelve years before, and with army ever since. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California