Great Depression

322 photos

Drinking water for field worker's family. Imperial Valley, California, near El Centro

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. United States No. 99, California

A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest. Nipomo, California

Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the pea fields. Nipomo, California

Migrant worker on California highway

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California, Kern County