California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Company housing for Mexican cotton pickers, showing the San Joaquin Valley in the background. South of Corcoran, California

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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.

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Two North American employees entertain their fellow workers with a boxing match during the lunch period recreation program

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A partial view of North American's flight ramp, with P-51 fighters getting final adjustments before flight tests and paint

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Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without water and sanitary conditions. Near Shafter, California

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from the City Hall. California. See card 1799-C for detailed information

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Self-help cooperative dairy. This dairy is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration. Near Santa Ana, California

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On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, North American Aviation, Inglewood, Calif.

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A woman welder at North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into the B-25 bombers