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Shafter camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Tent platforms are supplied. Workers supply their own tents. The newer camps are experimenting with prefabricated steel one-room houses

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The present home of the Howard family. This family was photographed in April 1935. At that time they were on their way from Okla. to Calif. Camped in an open field. Mother pregnant with five starving children. Raw green onions were all that they had to eat. They were again photographed during the potato harvest. The baby was born then, and they had food. Now there is some prospect of a fairly decent home. A pile of odds and ends of lumber will eventually be a house. A truck garden is planted

The present home of the Howard family. This family was photographed in April 1935. At that time they were on their way from Okla. to Calif. Camped in an open field. Mother pregnant with five starving children. Raw green onions were all that they had to eat. They were again photographed during the potato harvest. The baby was born then, and they had food. Now there is some prospect of a fairly decent home. A pile of odds and ends of lumber will eventually be a house. A truck garden is planted

Shafter camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Tent platforms are supplied. Workers supply their own tents. The newer camps are experimenting with prefabricated steel one-room houses

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/11/1938 - 30/11/1938

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Location

35.50051, -119.27178

Google Map of 35.5005139, -119.2717761

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New York Public Library

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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")