Great Depression

322 photos

Migrant camp, California

Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

Migrant pea workers on the road. All their worldly possessions in car and trailer. California

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. California

An oil worker builds himself a trailer and takes to the road. California

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

In a migratory labor camp. California

This man is a labor contractor in the pea fields of California. "One-Eye" Charlie gives his views. "I'm making my living off of these people (migrant laborers) so I know the conditions." San Luis Obispo County, California

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Slums of Brawley. Mexican field workers' homes. Imperial Valley, California

Roadside camp near Bakersfield, California. "Come to California." The wordly posessions of refugees from Texas dust, drought and depression

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figure out his year's earnings). California

Mexican mother in California. "Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'" (Note on Mexican labor situation in repatriation.)

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"

Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton

field worker. Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has just made himself shoes out of that old tire

Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

No garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California