Great Depression

322 photos

Squatter camp near Shafter, California

Migratory family in auto camp. California

Wife of migratory worker in auto camp. California

1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

Squatter camp. California

Children and home of migratory cotton workers. Migratory camp, southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Privy in cheap migratory camp. San Joaquin Valley, California

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, California. American River camp

Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

Company housing for Mexican cotton pickers, showing the San Joaquin Valley in the background. South of Corcoran, California

1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Drought refugees in California migrant camp

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Billboard sign. Southern California, near Los Angeles

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Church near Blythe, California

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available. Approximately one thousand people now living here and raising children

"Home" of a migrant worker's family. Kern County, California. Lately came from Oklahoma