Great Depression

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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Water supply: an open settling basin from the irrigation ditch in a California squatter camp near Calipatria

Water supply in a squatter camp near Calipatria is an open settling basin fed by an irrigation ditch

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"

The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County, California

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent"

Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

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

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Migratory workers from Oklahoma washing in hot spring in the desert. Imperial Valley, California

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

Porch of Mexican worker's home in East El Centro, Imperial Valley, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fields of California. Imperial Valley