Riverside County, California Historic photos, documents, and people

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Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936. Near Indio, Co
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Some of the carrot pullers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. California
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Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. California
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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California
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Real estate sign along the highway on which hundreds of drought refugees and migrant workers travel. Riverside County, California
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Children of migratory Mexican field workers. The older one helps tie carrots in the field. Coachella Valley, California
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Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. California
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Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California
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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California
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