California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll"

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"The trek of bums, tramps, single transients, and undesirable indigents out of Los Angeles County because of police activity." California

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Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See general caption number 65

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"The trek of bums, tramps, single transients and undesirable indigents out of Los Angeles County because of police activity." California

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars

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Loading milk at the self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration. Near Santa Ana, California

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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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

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Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American Aviation, Inc.'s Inglewood, Calif., plant