California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Migrant family from Arkansas playing hill-billy songs. Farm Security Administration emergency migratory camp. Calipatria, California

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Marysville camp for migrants. Resettlement Administration. Shows utility unit and camp sites (toilets, showers, laundry). California

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North American's P-51 Mustang Fighter is in service with Britain's Royal Air Force, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

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Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma." Forty families in this group. Tents, tent houses, shacks, freight cars converted into homes

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Land gear struts for the tail wheel of North America's P-51 Mustang fighter are checked before leaving for the final assembly line

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Men and women working together on the production front. Two North American employees assemble the engine cowling for a B-25 bomber

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Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children. On U.S. 99. Near Famosa or Vamosa, Kern County, California

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Railroad yard behind potato shed from which Klamath potatoes are shipped across the country. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

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Singing hymns before opening of meeting of Mothers' Club at Arvin Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migrants, California