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Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war

Lumber industry of the California north coast. Abandoned lumber town showing mill and houses. Mendocino County, California

Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost their farm and for the last three years "have been draggin' our children around California. We're a have-to case." Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there ..."

Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees from the Southwest, Arizona is a stopping point on the way to California, where money can be made during the cotton harvest with which to continue the journey

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war

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california napa valley migrant laborers depressions the miriam and ira d wallach division of art prints and photographs photography collection farm security administration photographs twenty five years lumber camps industrial workers united states farm security administration sponsor lange dorothea photographer ultra high resolution high resolution farm security administration great depression workers classic photography art photography new york public library
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01/12/1938 - 31/12/1938
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Hauling Red Wood Logs to Casper River, Mendocino Co.

Twenty-five years of girl scouting, 1912-1937

Five Idaho farmers, members of Ola self-help sawmill co-op, in the woods standing against a load of logs ready to go down to their mill about three miles away. Gem County, Idaho. General caption 48

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A black and white photo of a man in a field, Mexican carrot worker, Edinburg, Texas

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Blowing dust in the Oklahoma Panhandle

Old cowboy who was formerly employed at the SMS Ranch near Spur, Texas

Child sitting on bed in tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation. April 1936

Jacquard loom at work weaving brocade. Silk industry, South Manchester, Conn., U.S.A.

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california napa valley migrant laborers depressions the miriam and ira d wallach division of art prints and photographs photography collection farm security administration photographs twenty five years lumber camps industrial workers united states farm security administration sponsor lange dorothea photographer ultra high resolution high resolution farm security administration great depression workers classic photography art photography new york public library