Calipatria, California - Historic photos, documents, and people

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Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Part of mobile camp unit, moving from harvest to harvest with workers (emergency)

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Living conditions for migratory children in private auto camp during pea harvest. Tent space fifty cents a week. Outskirts of Calipatria, California

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Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

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Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents a week. California

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

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Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Single men, itinerants with "bindles" waiting for the freight

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

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Pea pickers waiting at Farm Security Administration (FSA) office for issue of surplus commodities. Calipatria, California

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Water supply: an open settling basin from the irrigation ditch in a California squatter camp near Calipatria

Calipatria, California Historic photos, documents, and people