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Migrant agricultural worker. Near Holtville, California

Migrant agricultural worker. Near Holtville, California

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

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.

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers' camps in Imperial Valley and elsewhere have been much improved this year largely because of influence of Farm Security Administion (FSA) migrant camp program.  Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers...

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

Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked their way across the country. Encamped on the river bottom. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California

Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked t...

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

Part of family come for work in potatoes. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Left their home in Turkey, Texas, November, 1938. Picked cotton in Arizona till March. Picked fruit in Oregon till June. Picked prunes in Idaho till September 15th

Part of family come for work in potatoes. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, C...

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

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

Squatters camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. General ...

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 agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of the Norfolk-Cape Charles Ferry. They are going to Bridgeville, Delaware to pick apples. July 1940.

Migratory agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of the Norfolk-...

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

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. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers.

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.

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. California

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. 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

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

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

Glendale project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. One of the twenty-four homes on the part-time farm project

Glendale project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. One of the t...

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

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.

Near Lindsay, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters (Tulare County)

Near Lindsay, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters (Tulare Co...

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

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief "because he once lived there."

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and younges...

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

Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the pea fields. Nipomo, California

Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the p...

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Vall...

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

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

Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California

Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California

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

From Texas tenant farmer to California fruit tramp. Marysville, Calif. His story: "1927 made $7000 in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 went in still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road."

From Texas tenant farmer to California fruit tramp. Marysville, Calif....

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Mexican migrant woman harvesting tomatoes. Santa Clara Valley, California

Mexican migrant woman harvesting tomatoes. Santa Clara Valley, Califor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, 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.

Laundry facilities for migratory workers in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp at Westley, California

Laundry facilities for migratory workers in Farm Security Administrati...

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

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father, eldest daughter and eldest son working

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

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

Threshing red clover for seed on older settler's ranch. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Threshing red clover for seed on older settler's ranch. Near Ontario, ...

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

Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California

Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fort tower, stone walls, fortification, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each family has to build its own shack; they pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent, including water. Eighty families living here in November 1936 ...

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each f...

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

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, ne...

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

Squatter camp. California - Public domain scan / print

Squatter camp. California - Public domain scan / print

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

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

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

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

Farm Security Administration 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.

Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season

Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration ca...

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 camp on the outskirts of Sacramento on the American River. Approximately 30 families lived in this camp in November 1936.

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento on the American River. App...

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

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, 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

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

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

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

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family father, mother and eleven children originally from Mangrum, Oklahoma. See 19201

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

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

House in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California

House in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, Cali...

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 pulling carrots. Imperial Valley, California

Migratory field worker pulling carrots. Imperial Valley, California

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

Pea pickers' tent near San Jose, California

Pea pickers' tent near San Jose, 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.

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agriculture work...

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 migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. until noon, when photograph was made, he had picked eighty pounds, which equals eighty cents. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence

Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. u...

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each family has to build its own shack; they pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent, including water. Eighty families living here in November 1936 ...

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each f...

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

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, ne...

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

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.

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Vall...

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

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

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

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

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

Madera County, family from near Dallas, Texas. Rent is five dollars a month. "There's no future here. I've been following the work (migratory labor) but there's no chance for a fellow to get a holt hisself in this country ...

Madera County, family from near Dallas, Texas. Rent is five dollars a ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Resident nurse and clinic building of Agricultural Workers' Health and Medical Association

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.

Sanitary facilities in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California

Sanitary facilities in camp of carrot pullers. Near Holtville, Imperia...

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

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.

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fie...

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

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields ...

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to 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

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

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

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.

From Texas tenant farmer to California fruit tramp. Marysville, Calif. His story: "1927 made $7000 in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 went in still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road"

From Texas tenant farmer to California fruit tramp. Marysville, Calif....

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

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. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers

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.

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fie...

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.

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 farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, 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.

Toilet for ten cabins, men, women and children in auto camp for Arkansawyers, recent migrants to California. Rent for cabins ten dollars a month. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Toilet for ten cabins, men, women and children in auto camp for Arkans...

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

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