Great Depression

322 photos

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

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

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

Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway

Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, 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

Tracy (vicinity), California. U.S. Highway 99. Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area.

Mexican child. She helps tie carrots in the field. Coachella Valley, California

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

Migrant agricultural workers' home. California

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Migrant agricultural worker in Holtville

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. 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

Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency relief. Nine miles from Calipatria, California

Refugee families near Holtville, California