California Historic photos, documents, and people

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

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Roadside camp near Bakersfield, California. "Come to California." The wordly posessions of refugees from Texas dust, drought and depression

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New Idria, California. A mining car used at the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company's workings to haul cinnabar, an ore containing mercury

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New Idria, California. A power shovel loading mercury ore, called cinnabar, at an open-cut mine of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company

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New Idria, California. A mining car used at the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company's workings to haul cinnabar, an ore containing mercury

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Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes

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Employees at North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling the cowling on Allison motors for the P-51 fighter planes, Inglewood, Calif.

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Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"

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El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California