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Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

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01/01/1939

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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

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Harlingen, 26.19063, -97.69610

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Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Family who have small goat dairy in front of their tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. They had moved into the tent to save rent and fuel money in town

Family who have small goat dairy in front of their tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. They had moved into the tent to save rent and fuel money in town

Agricultural day laborer wiping the sweat from his neck after his return home from chopping cotton.This man had once been a tenant farmer and had quit farming because of repeated crop failures and inability to secure good farming land; he then became a day laborer, his entire family working with him in the fields. They chopped cotton, hoed corn, picked cotton, cut spinach and picked up potatoes. However, because they had this established tent home on the banks of the Arkansas River and because they worked in and around this neighborhood, they considered themselves a class above the migrant workers who came in to harvest the crops. This man had planted a small garden back of his tent not for the value of the garden since he said that the sun would get it before the vegetables were mature, but because it would prevent any of the migrant families from camping near them. He said, "Those migrants don't live the way we do, course they don't have anything to live with." Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Agricultural day laborer wiping the sweat from his neck after his return home from chopping cotton.This man had once been a tenant farmer and had quit farming because of repeated crop failures and inability to secure good farming land; he then became a day laborer, his entire family working with him in the fields. They chopped cotton, hoed corn, picked cotton, cut spinach and picked up potatoes. However, because they had this established tent home on the banks of the Arkansas River and because they worked in and around this neighborhood, they considered themselves a class above the migrant workers who came in to harvest the crops. This man had planted a small garden back of his tent not for the value of the garden since he said that the sun would get it before the vegetables were mature, but because it would prevent any of the migrant families from camping near them. He said, "Those migrants don't live the way we do, course they don't have anything to live with." Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Tent home of white migrant family near Harlingen, Texas

Tent home of white migrant family near Harlingen, Texas

Migrant fruit worker making biscuits in her tent home. Berrien County, Michigan

Migrant fruit worker making biscuits in her tent home. Berrien County, Michigan

Migrant mother making biscuits in tent home near Mercedes, Texas. See 32108-D

Migrant mother making biscuits in tent home near Mercedes, Texas. See 32108-D

Migrant white mother washing clothes in front of tent home. Weslaco, Texas. See general caption

Migrant white mother washing clothes in front of tent home. Weslaco, Texas. See general caption

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Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

Migrant Workers' Songs in California

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Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Setting up tent home. Migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Hamburger stand, Harlingen, Texas

Hamburger stand, Harlingen, Texas

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Son of white migrant worker near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

Son of white migrant worker near Harlingen, Texas. See 32108-D

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Harlingen (vicinity), Tex. Migrant worker sitting in front of fire. He lived with two other men workers

$Harlingen (vicinity), Tex. Migrant worker sitting in front of fire. He lived with two other men workers$

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