California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

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Pea picker's home. The condition of these people warrant resettlement camps for migrant agricultural workers. Nipomo, California

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Newsies. See California report. Location: Los Angeles, California / Lewis W. Hine.

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As North American P-51 fighters move off the final assembly line and on to the flight ramp, flight crews make final adjustments

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A North American P-51 fighter is cleaned by painters before receiving the olive drab paint of the United States Army Air Forces

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A Negro woman at North American Aviation uses an electric hand drill to drill holes in a sheet metal assembly prior to riveting

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Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike. Bakersfield, California

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Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California

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Newsie. See California report. Location: Los Angeles, California / Lewis W. Hine.