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Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, California

Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, 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

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.

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration)

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa...

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.

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.

Housing for rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on fringe of town, Salinas, California. These houses are built by the occupants, most of them recent migrants from the Southwest

Housing for rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on fringe of...

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

Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migrant agricultural workers. Nursery school children. Row of prefabricated steel shelters in which their families live shown in background

Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for...

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

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age twenty three, been on the road seven years. Married. "I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog." Washington, Yakima Valley

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned f...

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.

Squatter camp entering potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 64

Squatter camp entering potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. Gen...

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 California "fruit tramp." The car has done duty on the fruit route for 16 years. Outskirts of Marysville, California.

Camp of California "fruit tramp." The car has done duty on the fruit r...

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

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Co...

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

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on hi...

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

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 migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, California. American River camp

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, C...

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

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

Prefabricated steel dwellings (one step up from a tent) replace the us...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm Security Administration (FSA). Migratory labor camp during pea harvest. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA). Migratory labor camp during pea ha...

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

Migratory field workers at 5 a.m. waiting in the carrot field to hold a place to work, which starts at 8 a.m.

Migratory field workers at 5 a.m. waiting in the carrot field to hold ...

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

In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Bow, Oklahoma

In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California....

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.

Tulare County, Farmersville, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Entering clinic of Agricultural Workers' Health and Medical Association (FSA) for nurse's help with sick baby

Tulare County, Farmersville, California. Farm Security Administration ...

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 boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers on the Pacific Coast. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers on the Pac...

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

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. No...

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

Camp of migrant agricultural workers along the highway in California. This signboard is used as a windbreak

Camp of migrant agricultural workers along the highway in California. ...

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.

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

Prefabricated steel dwellings (one step up from a tent) replace the us...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tulare County, California. Camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Sons, migratory workers, bring father, who is sick and old to the camp clinic

Tulare County, California. Camp for migratory agricultural workers at ...

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

Sign on camp site opposite potato packing sheds. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Sign on camp site opposite potato packing sheds. Tulelake, Siskiyou Co...

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

Supper time. Drought refugee from Oklahoma, shelterless, hoping to work in the peach harvest. Marysville, California.

Supper time. Drought refugee from Oklahoma, shelterless, hoping to wor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, 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.

Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California

Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, 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.

The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Valley, California. Planting cantaloupe

The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Vall...

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

Chandler project, Farm Security Administration, Arizona. A housing project for seasonal agricultural workers

Chandler project, Farm Security Administration, Arizona. A housing pro...

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

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

Mexican grandmother of migrant family picking tomatoes in commercial field. Santa Clara County, California

Mexican grandmother of migrant family picking tomatoes in commercial f...

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

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.

A man sitting on the ground next to another man, Migrant worker in camp. California

A man sitting on the ground next to another man, Migrant worker in cam...

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

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.

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Meeting of the camp council. Farmersville, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural wor...

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

Potato pickers' camp. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Potato pickers' camp. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General c...

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.

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ...

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refuge...

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

Camps of migrant pea workers. California

Camps of migrant pea workers. California

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

Camps of migrant pea workers. California

Camps of migrant pea workers. California

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

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

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

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. T...

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

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. California

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, 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

Harvesting peas requires large crews of migratory labor. Nipomo, California

Harvesting peas requires large crews of migratory labor. Nipomo, Calif...

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

Home of agricultural workers in Arizona. Two families live in this house. They have been in Arizona for six months. Before that they worked in south Texas, picking cotton

Home of agricultural workers in Arizona. Two families live in this hou...

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.

Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. (Tulare County)

Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. (Tula...

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

Tent interior in a pea pickers' camp. Food supply and household equipment. Santa Clara County, California

Tent interior in a pea pickers' camp. Food supply and household equipm...

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

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

Between Tulare and Fresno. Two families originating from Independence,...

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

Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Nurse of Agricultural Workers' Health and Medical Association attends sick migrant woman while awaiting doctor

Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp 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

Tulare County, California. Sick woman in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers [Farmersville, Calif.]

Tulare County, California. Sick woman in Farm Security Administration ...

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.

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Camp representative of fourteen in group. On grower's land adjoining the bean field. See general caption number 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Camp representative of fourt...

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

Squatter camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 64

Squatter camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. General c...

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

Oklahoman and Missourian working in the same field crew sacking red clover seed, on older settler's ranch. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Oklahoman and Missourian working in the same field crew sacking red cl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military shooting, machine gun, artillery, armed conflict, 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 ...

Scan of the reverse side of the photograph

In one of the largest pea camps in California

In one of the largest pea camps in California

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.

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

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

Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California

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.

View of Kern County migrant camp showing community garden plots. California

View of Kern County migrant camp showing community garden plots. Calif...

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

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

American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migratory workers. Seven in family, came to California July 1935, following relatives who had come in 1933. Father was a coal miner in Tennessee

American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migrato...

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

Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Have worked in the fruit since 1931. "We don't make a living, but we live on what we make"

Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp ...

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

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, California. American River camp

Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, C...

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

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Pea harvest. Family at work. Nipomo, California

Pea harvest. Family at work. Nipomo, 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

Harvesting peas requires large crews of migratory labor. Nipomo, California

Harvesting peas requires large crews of migratory labor. Nipomo, Calif...

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

Drought refugee families are now mingling with and supplanting Mexican field laborers in the Southwest. Near Chandler, Arizona

Drought refugee families are now mingling with and supplanting Mexican...

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

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

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

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

Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one dollar per week

Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one...

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.

Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one dollar per week

Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one...

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.

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

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

Halloween party at Shafter 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

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

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.

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group

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

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

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

Prefabricated steel dwellings (one step up from a tent) replace the us...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, 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 photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley. Again the covered wagon. In migratory carrot puller's camp

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley. Again the covered wagon. In migratory...

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

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.

Tulare County, California. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Mother with sick baby awaits arrival of FSA camp resident nurse

Tulare County, California. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp ...

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

Town pump of Tulelake at railroad yard. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Over 1500 people depend on hauled water for drinking the year round. During potato harvest, this pump also serves the migratory pickers. General caption number 44

Town pump of Tulelake at railroad yard. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, Cal...

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

Families camped on flat before season opens, waiting for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) mobile unit to open. No sanitation, no water. Near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Families camped on flat before season opens, waiting for the Farm Secu...

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

Camp of migrant potato pickers seen from potato shed across the road. [Tulelake], Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Camp of migrant potato pickers seen from potato shed across the road. ...

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

Camp of migrant potato pickers seen from the packing shed. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Camp of migrant potato pickers seen from the packing shed. Tulelake, S...

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

Pea pickers. Wages (1939): one cent per pound. Hamper holds about twenty eight pounds. Near Niland, Imperial County, California

Pea pickers. Wages (1939): one cent per pound. Hamper holds about twen...

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

Oklahomans in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Oklahomans in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Scan of the reverse side of the photograph

Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers on the Pacific Coast. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers on the Pac...

Scan of the reverse side of the photograph

A black and white photo of men working in a field, Lettuce workers. California 1937.

A black and white photo of men working in a field, Lettuce workers. Ca...

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

Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

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

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

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

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

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