Farmer

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Farmer who has small plot in rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on outskirts of Salinas, California

Row boss. Formerly a pea picker. Near Calipatria, California

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, California. This family has been granted an Farm Security Administration loan of thirteen hundred dollars after struggling for eleven years on sixteen acres of poor land

Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Candidate for congress (General Walter Faulkner) and a Tennessee farmer. Crossville, Tennessee

Texas tenant farmers who have been displaced from their land by tractor farming

Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on same farm. Bell County, Texas

Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on the same farm. Bell County, Texas

Ex-tenant farmer, now a day laborer on large cotton farm near Corsicana, Texas

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, Oklahoma

Man in front of post office. Carey, Texas. This town is fast becoming a ghost town because of mechanization of cotton and displacement of tenant farmers

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Former Texas tenant farmers displaced by power farming

Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas. Haven't made a crop of cotton since 1932

A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker. Nipomo, California

Former tenant farmers on relief

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, California

Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop failures. Combined earnings, man and wife tying carrots: One dollar and twelve cents a day

Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit and vegetable harvests. Coachella Valley, California

Indiana farmer

Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street of the town while their crops burn up in the fields. "The guvment may keep us a little I reckon." Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Drought farmers come to town. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma