Calipatria, United States

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Waiting for the relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency relief. Nine miles from Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks"

Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultrual workers' camp near Calipatria, California