California Historic photos, documents, and people

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California Siskiyou County, Tulelake. Looking down main street of a frontier town, still impaired. This town has no safe drinking water

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Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, which took place just before the election. Kern County, California

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Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

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This roller in the hydropress department removes bumps and depressions from the metal as it comes from the drop hammer. Engine cowling

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

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Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

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Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

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On North American's "Sunshine" assembly line, a B-25 bomber is prepared for painting. Paper is taped to those areas not to be painted