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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

Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available. Approximately one thousand people now living here and raising children

Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of...

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

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers' camp near Shaf...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, 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.

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...

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

Housing for married people of Earl Fruit Company ranch. East of Delano, California

Housing for married people of Earl Fruit Company ranch. East of Delano...

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

The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California.

The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlemen...

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

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come to California looking for work and work for his family in cotton. No work, and no money

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come...

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

A black and white photo of a small house, Kern County migrant camp. California

A black and white photo of a small house, Kern County migrant camp. Ca...

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

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the members. California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the mem...

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

The children crowd and push to reach refreshments at Halloween party. Shafter migrant Camp, California

The children crowd and push to reach refreshments at Halloween party. ...

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

Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain. Kern County, California

Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to ra...

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

End of the Halloween party. Shafter migrant camp. California

End of the Halloween party. Shafter migrant camp. California

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

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Migrant family in Kern County.

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Migrant family in Kern ...

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

A black and white photo of a field with a horse drawn carriage, Squatter camp near Shafter, California

A black and white photo of a field with a horse drawn carriage, Squatt...

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

Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp. California

Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp....

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

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at Shafter, California

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at ...

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

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) California. A small library in camp with Works Progress Administration (WPA) librarian in charge is now available to agricultural workers

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) Cali...

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

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts....

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

Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer at edge of field. Kern County, California

Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer a...

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

Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation

Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato pl...

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

Pare Lorentz and Paul Ivano making Resettlement film near Bakersfield, Calif. 1935

Pare Lorentz and Paul Ivano making Resettlement film near Bakersfield,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arkansas squatters. Three years in California. Near Bakersfield, California

Arkansas squatters. Three years in California. Near Bakersfield, Calif...

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.

Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California

Tom Collins, manager of 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

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers' camp near Shaf...

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

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organiz...

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

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) California. A small library in camp with Works Progress Administration (WPA) librarian in charge is now available to agricultural workers

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) Cali...

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

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees.

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees.

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

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Migrant family in Kern County

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Migrant family in Kern ...

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

Grandmother from Oklahoma and her pieced quilt. California, Kern County

Grandmother from Oklahoma and her pieced quilt. California, Kern Count...

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

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. This is the first family to be selected by Farm Security Administration for housing

Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These...

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

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a log, Near Shafter, California. Migratory laborers

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a log, Near Shafter, C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Range in kitchen at Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, California

Range in kitchen at Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, California

Public domain photograph of kitchen, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Refreshments for children of migrant families. Shafter migrant camp, California

Refreshments for children of migrant families. Shafter migrant camp, C...

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

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film. Near Bakersfield, Calif. 1935

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

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

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...

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

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, Californi...

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

Migrant agricultural workers, idle in town during the potato harvest. Shafter, California

Migrant agricultural workers, idle in town during the potato harvest. ...

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

Street in residential district of Delano, California

Street in residential district of Delano, California

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

Pare Lorentz and Paul Ivano making Resettlement film near Bakersfield, Calif. 1935.

Pare Lorentz and Paul Ivano making Resettlement film near Bakersfield,...

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

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.

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.

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type while driving thirty-five miles between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, Cali...

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

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California. They are paid senty-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, 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

Newly-built cabins. Rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bakersfield

Newly-built cabins. Rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bake...

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

Home of married couple working on Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, California. These houses have been made from boxcars

Home of married couple working on Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern Count...

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

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...

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

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...

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

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...

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

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...

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

Worker in bunkhouse room at the Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, California

Worker in bunkhouse room at the Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County,...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family of ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas, near Little Rock, on California highway. Tehachapi grade

Family of ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas, near Little Rock, on Califor...

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

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government ca...

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

Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FS...

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

Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants potatoes in...

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

Kern County, California. Supply of fertilizer and potato seed on edge of field in which mechanical potato planter is operating

Kern County, California. Supply of fertilizer and potato seed on edge ...

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

Farm Workers Victory Festival, June 1942.  Victory Garden of the Grover Holidays at Arvin Labor Homes, Arvin FSA Farm Workers Community.  Mrs. Viola Holiday and her daughter Patsy pick some beets

Farm Workers Victory Festival, June 1942. Victory Garden of the Grove...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California, Kern County

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California,...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a farm, Kern County migrant camp. California

A black and white photo of a farm, Kern County migrant camp. Californi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thousands of migrant workers are employed for harvesting the potato crop of Kern County, California

Thousands of migrant workers are employed for harvesting the potato cr...

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

Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from eleven states are camped in the brush along the highway. No water, no toilets provided. This is a newly developed potato area

Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from el...

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

Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration dis...

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

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an Farm Security Administration housing project for low income farm workers. Rent of eight dollars and twenty cents monthly includes electricity and water

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an...

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

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government ca...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

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

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...

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

Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Ba...

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.

Oklahomans in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Oklahomans in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

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

Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms, duststorms, insects ..."

Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, re...

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

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under (WPA) project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

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

Housing for Philipino workers. Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, California

Housing for Philipino workers. Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, ...

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

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film. Near Bakersfield, Calif. 1935.

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film...

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

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organiz...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) California. A small library in camp with Works Progress Administration (WPA) librarian in charge is now available to agricultural workers

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) Cali...

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

Camper receives help in fitting a coat from Works Progress Administration (WPA) sewing instructor. Shafter camp for migratory agricultural workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

Camper receives help in fitting a coat from Works Progress Administrat...

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

Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, which took place just before the election. Kern County, California

Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, w...

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

Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to California in 1920 from Missouri. Father had job for eight years. Was gang foreman on Los Angeles Aqueduct; laid off two months ago

Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 9...

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

Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and the Ridge

Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and ...

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

"Home" of a migrant worker's family. Kern County, California. Lately came from Oklahoma

"Home" of a migrant worker's family. Kern County, California. Lately c...

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

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California, Kern County

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California,...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people sitting around a truck, Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

A group of people sitting around a truck, Potato harvesters. Kern Coun...

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

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

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

Migratory workers' "kitchen" near Shafter. Kern County, California. Squatters' camp

Migratory workers' "kitchen" near Shafter. Kern County, California. Sq...

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

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, Californi...

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

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the pota...

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

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at Shafter, California

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at ...

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

A sign that says air is your country don't let the big men take it away from you, Gas station. Kern County, California

A sign that says air is your country don't let the big men take it awa...

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

Shafter camp for migratory agricultural workers, Farm Security Administration. Entrance and office. California

Shafter camp for migratory agricultural workers, Farm Security Adminis...

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

The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no sanitation for the families who camp here during the potato harvesting season. When the season is over they move on. The tin cans and rubbish remain

The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no san...

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

From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California. Cotton strike (Nov. 1938). He displays his union membership book. "Vote No on No. 1" refers to proposed anti-picketing law which was later defeated by California electorate. Kern County, Cal.

From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California. Cotton...

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

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked, and the pickers refused to enter the fields

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers...

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

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys over this ridge

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and ...

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

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers
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