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Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road ...

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp 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

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

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

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

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

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

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

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

Privy in cheap migratory camp. San Joaquin Valley, California

Privy in cheap migratory camp. San Joaquin Valley, California

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

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the d...

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

Camp of migratory workers. Imperial County, California

Camp of migratory workers. Imperial County, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

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

Young Oklahoma mother, age 18, penniless in California. Imperial Valley. 1937

Young Oklahoma mother, age 18, penniless in California. 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

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have their baggage inspected for plant pests. Yuma, Arizona

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have th...

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

Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley. California

Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley...

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

Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to try to find work in the California harvests. Between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona. Fourteen such cars were passed one afternoon on this highway

Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to try to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large sca...

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

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

Shafter camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), C...

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.

This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived in California. There are eleven children in family. They bought a forty acre piece of land on which they still owe one thousand dollars

This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived i...

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

On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not the old "Bindle-Stiff" type

On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not th...

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

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administrati...

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

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.

Between Tulare and Fresno (see general caption). Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, on U.S. 99. Started out from Fresno that morning for work cotton chopping

Between Tulare and Fresno (see general caption). Two families originat...

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

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after fathe...

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

Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and the Ridge
Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...

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

Icon Mrs. Howard and the baby, public domain photograph

Icon Mrs. Howard and the baby, public domain photograph

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

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

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

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

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

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

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

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seve...

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

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

Kern County camp for migrants. Planned and erected by the Resettlement...

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

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...

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

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mother and child

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, 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

View of Kern County migrant camp. California

View of Kern County migrant camp. California

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

Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California. Heading for the pea harvest but stalled because they have no money to buy a trailer's license

Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had b...

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

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

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

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. 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

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Ioabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Ioabel, Oklahom...

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

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administrati...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridle...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridle...

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

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 ..."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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

Young mother, twenty five, says "Next year we'll be painted and have a lawn and flowers." Rural shacktown, near Klamath Falls, Oregon. General caption number 47

Young mother, twenty five, says "Next year we'll be painted and have a...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cow Hollow farmer, came from Oklahoma, has received FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan to help them establish their new place. Wife is co-signer with her husband on chattel mortgage. She signs with an "X." Malheur County, Oregon

Cow Hollow farmer, came from Oklahoma, has received FSA (Farm Security...

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

Home of a migrant family. Calif.

Home of a migrant family. Calif.

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

A black and white photo of a group of horses, Migrants' camp. California

A black and white photo of a group of horses, Migrants' camp. Californ...

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

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

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

Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty to two hundred dollars. Bought on hope and sold on promises. No work since last fall. A few get relief and "welfare," but they say they are not eligible in California

Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty...

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

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had gone back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars ... that they were permitted to enter

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman holding a bucket, In a migratory camp. California

A black and white photo of a woman holding a bucket, In a migratory ca...

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

Women in California squatter camp. Kern County

Women in California squatter camp. Kern County

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.

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank ...

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their ho...

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

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. On their way to the Arkansas cotton fields. 1936

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. On their way to the Arkansas ...

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

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...

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

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the American River. About thirty families lived on this flat

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the America...

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

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman in a California pea pickers' camp, mending the tent

Woman in a California pea pickers' camp, mending the tent

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

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have their baggage inspected for plant pests. Yuma, Arizona

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have th...

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

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

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

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

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

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arkansans are settling in this country. Their cultures and forms of religious expression are being transferred with them

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arka...

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

This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived in California. There are eleven children in family. They bought a forty acre piece of land on which they still owe one thousand dollars

This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived i...

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

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administrati...

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

Near Fresno, California. Migrants' tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific

Near Fresno, California. Migrants' tents are a common sight along the ...

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 image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

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

Water supply for ten cabins in Arkansawyers auto camp. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Water supply for ten cabins in Arkansawyers auto camp. Greenfield, Sal...

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

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See general caption number 65

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tu...

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

He brought his family to the west in a homemade trailer from Texas five months ago. Photograph made after supper. Boy sick. Father has work now in potato field. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In mobile unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

He brought his family to the west in a homemade trailer from Texas fiv...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma. Now living i...

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

California migratory farm laborers-drought refugees from Oklahoma-camped in the brush on the river bottom with no water or sanitation. On the outskirts of Brawley, Imperial Valley, Calif.

California migratory farm laborers-drought refugees from Oklahoma-camp...

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

The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had b...

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

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

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new mi...

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

An old black and white photo of people outside a barn, Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California

An old black and white photo of people outside a barn, Housing for Okl...

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

An old photo of a man and a woman standing in front of a truck, Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

An old photo of a man and a woman standing in front of a truck, Dispos...

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

"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

"Blue Monday" in a California migratory camp

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

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. United States No. 99, California

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. Un...

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

Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money

Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico w...

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

General view of Kern migrant camp, California

General view of Kern migrant camp, California

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

Wife of migratory worker in auto camp. California

Wife of migratory worker in auto camp. California

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

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

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

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the d...

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

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

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

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

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling to...

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

The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County, California

The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial Co...

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

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Southern California

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten ch...

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

Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fields of California. Imperial Valley

Drought and depression refugee from Oklahoma now working in the pea fi...

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

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have their baggage inspected for plant pests. Yuma, Arizona

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have th...

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

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, are bound for the lower Rio ...

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

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large sca...

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

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arkansans, are settling in this country; their cultures and forms of religious expression are being transferred with them

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arka...

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

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in 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

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

Shafter camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), C...

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.

Rural rehabilitation. Tulare County, California. Arkansas mother come to California for a new start

Rural rehabilitation. Tulare County, California. Arkansas mother come ...

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.

Rural rehabilitation. Tulare County, California. Arkansas mother come to California for a new start

Rural rehabilitation. Tulare County, California. Arkansas mother come ...

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.

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