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End of the day. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

End of the day. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadsi...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pea field during harvest on Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Cars between the fields belong to field bosses, weighers, packers, and pickers, of whom there were 500 in the field on the day this photograph was made

Pea field during harvest on Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, Imperial ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California

Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents a week

Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pea picker at scales. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Pea picker at scales. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Straw boss of pea packers in the field near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Straw boss of pea packers in the field near Calipatria, Imperial Valle...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Two trailers, one to be used by camp manager for living quarters and office, the other as a clinic and health center

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Two trailers, o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

One of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938, for the first time the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A grandmother from Oklahoma. She works in the California pea fields. Calipatria, California

A grandmother from Oklahoma. She works in the California pea fields. C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two men picking cotton in a field, Pea pickers near Calipatria, California

Two men picking cotton in a field, Pea pickers near Calipatria, Califo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out ...

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Feb. 1939. F.S.A. migratory labor camp (emergency)

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Feb. 1939. F.S.A. migratory labor camp (e...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Pea pickers near Calipatria, California

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Pea pickers near Cal...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pea pickers coming into weigh master. 500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch, newly planted to peas. Near Calipatria, California

Pea pickers coming into weigh master. 500 pea pickers in field of larg...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Sick migratory worker from Colorado in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Sick migratory worker from Colorado in Fa...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Calipatria, I...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Open air food factory. Weighing in the peas near Calipatria, California

Open air food factory. Weighing in the peas near Calipatria, Californi...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Supper time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory emergency camp for workers in the pea fields. Calipatria, California

Supper time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory emergency ...

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.

Farmer from Nebraska in emergency camp for migratory workers during pea harvesting says "I put mine in what I thought was the best investment -- the good old earth--but we lost on that, too."

Farmer from Nebraska in emergency camp for migratory workers during pe...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the D...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents per week. Calipatria, Imperial County

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent sp...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Part of mobile camp unit, moving from harvest to harvest with workers ...

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp, Calipatria, I...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Calipatria. Pea picker at the end of the day

Near Calipatria. Pea picker at the end of the day

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lunchtime in the field. Camp in background. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

Lunchtime in the field. Camp in background. Near Calipatria, Californi...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp. One third had no work; two-thirds were finding part-time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) four dollars and twenty cents a week

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imp...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) eme...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp. Imperial Valley, California, near Calipatria

Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp. Imperial Valley, Californi...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley. California

Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Pea pickers near Calipatria, California

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Pea pickers near Cal...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938, for the first time the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California. Outskirts of Calipatria. Imperial Valley

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of Cali...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California. Outskirts of Calipatria. Imperial Valley

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of Cali...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Calipatria, I...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pea pickers coming in to the weigh master. Near Calipatria, California. Sinclair Ranch

Pea pickers coming in to the weigh master. Near Calipatria, California...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pea pickers. End of the day. Near Calipatria. California

Pea pickers. End of the day. Near Calipatria. California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Living conditions for migratory children in private auto camp during pea harvest. Tent space fifty cents a week. Outskirts of Calipatria, California

Living conditions for migratory children in private auto camp during p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Supper time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory emergency camp for workers in the pea fields. Calipatria, California

Supper time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory emergency ...

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.

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Migrant family, new arrivals, erect their tent on allotted camp site. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). M...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Pea pickers waiting at Farm Security Administration (FSA) office for issue of surplus commodities. Calipatria, California

Pea pickers waiting at Farm Security Administration (FSA) office for i...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Young migrant mother who lives in one of the tents. California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency camp. Calipatria

Young migrant mother who lives in one of the tents. California. Farm S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant family from Arkansas playing hill-billy songs. Farm Security Administration emergency migratory camp. Calipatria, California

Migrant family from Arkansas playing hill-billy songs. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Single men, itinerants with "bindles" waiting for the freight

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Sin...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the ...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency.) Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the D...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Emergency camp was established to meet the needs of migratory families during the spring pea harvests. 155 families were living here at the time photograph was made

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Emergency cam...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pickers coming into the weigh master. Pea field near Calipatria, California

Pickers coming into the weigh master. Pea field near Calipatria, Calif...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pea pickers coming into the weigh master. Near Calipatria, California

Pea pickers coming into the weigh master. Near Calipatria, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pea pickers. End of the day. Near Calipatria. California

Pea pickers. End of the day. Near Calipatria. California

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thirty pounds brought to the scale. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thi...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Tent of migratory workers in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp (emergency). Calipatria, California

Tent of migratory workers in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp (...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks."

Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory la...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Migratory workers, in camp for pea harvest, scan the bulletin board at entrance

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). C...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Housing of migratory field workers (Mexican) across road from Farm Security Administration camp (FSA). Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Housing of migratory field workers (Mexican) across road from Farm Sec...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair ranch, newly planted to peas. Near Calipatria, California

500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair ranch, newly planted ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Fa...

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

One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker. Near Calipatria, Imperial...

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.

Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks."

Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory la...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Single men, itinerants with "bindles" waiting for the freight

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Sin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the D...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the ...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Migratory workers, in camp for the pea harvest, scan the bulletin board at entrance

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency.) Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Calipatria. Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch newly planted to peas. California

Near Calipatria. Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinc...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Son-in law of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Son-in law of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) l...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Calipatria. Idle pea pickers come into town and discuss prospects for work on the street corners

Calipatria. Idle pea pickers come into town and discuss prospects for ...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.