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Great Depression
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Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The child is a flood refugee from southeast Missouri
Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling
Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. From farm family originally in Missouri, then Iowa. Migrants to California
Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. Tulare County, California
Near Shafter, California. Migratory laborers
U.S. 101 near San Juan Bautista, California
On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not the old "Bindle-Stiff" type
Strathmore, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri. Eight years in California. Working in lemons. "It's easy for us because we haven't got a bunch of kids to get drug around."
Kern County, California. County road between potato fields
Cotton picker near Firebaugh, California
Migrant worker in camp. California
Migratory family arriving at grower's camp for pickers. Car bears Wyoming license, the probable state of origin of the family. Imperial Valley, California
Kern County, California is largely in the hands of big landowners. Also it is a mecca for migrants from the Southwest
Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. From farm family originally in Missouri, then Iowa. Migrants to California
Migrants from the Southwest bring their institutions with them. Salinas Valley, California
U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys over this ridge
Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Single men, itinerants with "bindles" waiting for the freight
In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Row, Oklahoma
Living conditions for migratory children in private auto camp during pea harvest. Tent space fifty cents a week. Outskirts of Calipatria, California
On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. See general caption 1.
In a carrot pickers' camp, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Bow, Oklahoma. "Are you going to take my picture, wait till I get my hair combed"
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war