Fresno County, California Historic photos, documents, and people

Tranquillity, California. Sunday morning service. Migrants from the southwest bring their religions with them to California

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Illuminated sign, approaching San Joaquin Valley town. See general caption. California

Employment signs in Spanish and English. These ranches (1938) increasingly use pickers. Near Fresno, California

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California

Fresno. Street corner of San Joaquin Valley town on U.S. 99 showing secondhand store. California

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

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