Migrant Worker

45 photos

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family. California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee and her four sons. California

Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma. Now living in Kern migrant camp, California

While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in the nursery school under trained teachers, Kern migrant camp, California

Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

Kern County migrant camp. California

Kern County migrant camp. California

Kern County camp for migrants. Planned and erected by the Resettlement Administration fifteen miles out of Bakersfield, California. Partially occupied because there is not any work in the fields

Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California

Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers, a slack season; Belle Glade, Fla.

migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla.

Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, Belle Glade, Fla.

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla.

Families of migratory workers in front of their row shelters, FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex.

Gardens are planted in front of the row shelters, FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex.

Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.

Community clothesline, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.

Migratory worker, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.

Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex.

Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center's cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Tex.

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla.