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Squatter camp facilities

Squatter camp facilities

Shelter with trash strewn around, Indio, Imperial Valley, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.

Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into California. U.S. 80 / Dorothea Lange, 1935.

Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into...

Photograph shows cars crossing a bridge with a sign with the word "Yuma" on the top.

Father and child on train, Alaska

Father and child on train, Alaska

Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 2.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Photograph shows a woman seated with her children at the entrance to a squatter's shelter. In album: Rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California / compiled by Paul S. Taylor. 1935, [bottom, plate 31].

Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent

Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent

House made of eucalyptus leaves, Bakersfield, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest. Nipomo, California

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea har...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003803-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Infor... More

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

House in "Little Oklahoma," California

House in "Little Oklahoma," California

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Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for w...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information ... More

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Alabama Plow Girl, near Eutaw, Alabama

Alabama Plow Girl, near Eutaw, Alabama

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

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...

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A black and white photo of a man working on barrels, Migrant shed worker. Northeast Florida

A black and white photo of a man working on barrels, Migrant shed work...

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Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in 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"

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby. Father said "They call me a road hog and a bum; but if I am, how did that boy get into the eighth grade?" American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insuff...

Additional information on caption card: See 9919, 9916, 9921 [i.e. LC-USF34-009919-C, LC-USF34-009916-E and LC-USF34-009921]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of Wa... More

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a window sill, Negro in Greenville, Mississippi

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a window sill, Negro in Gr...

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Oil tank farm near Odessa, Texas

Oil tank farm near Odessa, Texas

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Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California

Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, Californ...

Other title from Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1988. p. 121. Title an... More

Hinds County, Mississippi. "Cotton rules the world," says this sharecropper woman

Hinds County, Mississippi. "Cotton rules the world," says this sharecr...

Negative edge is torn. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI... More

Detail of Negro sharecropper's porch. Washington County, Mississippi

Detail of Negro sharecropper's porch. Washington County, Mississippi

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Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the D...

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Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee

Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee

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Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. His wages seventy-five cents a day and cabin. He has six children

Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. ...

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Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia

Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. ...

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

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

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The municipal levee at Greenville, Mississippi

The municipal levee at Greenville, Mississippi

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Young Negro boy in the corn. Near Leland, Mississippi

Young Negro boy in the corn. Near Leland, Mississippi

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Deaf Smith County, Texas. "It is reliably estimated that not less than 40,000 families have moved away from the Great Plains drought area since 1930." From the report of the Great Plains Committee, 1936

Deaf Smith County, Texas. "It is reliably estimated that not less than...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Colored plowboys on cotton plantation in Brazos riverbottoms coming in from the fields. "I never heard of Joe Louis." Texas

Colored plowboys on cotton plantation in Brazos riverbottoms coming in...

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Combine harvester in California. Wheat field. San Joaquin Valley

Combine harvester in California. Wheat field. San Joaquin Valley

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pic... More

Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma

Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma

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Contra Costa County, California. Cowbarn and hills, California dairy ranch

Contra Costa County, California. Cowbarn and hills, California dairy r...

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As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco i...

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Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Cafe on U.S. 99, formerly the "Oasis"

Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Cafe on U.S. 99, formerly the "Oa...

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Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the third year to pick hops. Mother: "You'd be surprised what that boy can pick." Washington, Yakima Valley

Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the thir...

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Bulldozer equipped with grader blade pushing over a stump. Western Washington, Lewis County, near Vader, Washington. See general caption number 41

Bulldozer equipped with grader blade pushing over a stump. Western Was...

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Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in yard. They have no privy and haul water. Sacks hanging on line are used to haul tobacco to market. Person County, North Carolina

Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in ...

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Tobacco barn with newly plastered furnace in preparation for "putting in." Note main roof of tin and shelter roof of shingles. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco barn with newly plastered furnace in preparation for "putting ...

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Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years of operation. Now being dismantled. Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, Malone, Washington. General caption number 39

Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years of operation...

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Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho. Abandoned storage shed of the Humbird Lumber Company

Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho. Abandoned storage shed of the Humbird...

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Mrs. Dougherty in doorway of basement house. Warm Springs, Malheur County, Oregon

Mrs. Dougherty in doorway of basement house. Warm Springs, Malheur Cou...

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Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three years. Washington, Yakima Valley

Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three ...

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Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. In the neighborhood where the Salvation Army operates. Sedan service to Los Angeles on share the expense basis

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. In the neighborhood where t...

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Between Tulare and Fresno, California. (See general caption)

Between Tulare and Fresno, California. (See general caption)

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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...

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Potatoes in storage cellar at end of season. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Potatoes in storage cellar at end of season. Merrill, Klamath County, ...

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Migrants from the Southwest bring their institutions with them. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Migrants from the Southwest bring their institutions with them. Greenf...

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Tobacco barns on the Stone place. Upchurch, North Carolina

Tobacco barns on the Stone place. Upchurch, North Carolina

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Entering Cow Hollow region in which practically all are FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers. These are farmers who had a late start. Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 66

Entering Cow Hollow region in which practically all are FSA (Farm Secu...

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Washington, Klickitat County, near Goldendale, on U.S. 97. Abandoned farm in wheat country

Washington, Klickitat County, near Goldendale, on U.S. 97. Abandoned f...

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Home of one of the Stephens brothers, farmers from Nebraska. Nyssa Heights district, Malheur County, Oregon

Home of one of the Stephens brothers, farmers from Nebraska. Nyssa Hei...

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Fencing on new farms in cut-over area. Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 49

Fencing on new farms in cut-over area. Priest River Valley, Bonner Cou...

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of C...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Original negative missing. This negative made from file print. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War In... More

Surveying gang. WPA workers. Bosque Farms Project.

Surveying gang. WPA workers. Bosque Farms Project.

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

A black and white photo of a man plowing a field, Man with cultivator. California.

A black and white photo of a man plowing a field, Man with cultivator....

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

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

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

A black and white photo of a city street, Background photograph for Hightstown project.

A black and white photo of a city street, Background photograph for Hi...

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Father and son building home on wheels. Yuba Co. Calif. 1936.

Father and son building home on wheels. Yuba Co. Calif. 1936.

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

The delta land of the Mississippi River is the largest alluvial section in the world, an area of 18 miles by 300 miles. It produces 500,000 bales of cotton annually.

The delta land of the Mississippi River is the largest alluvial sectio...

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

Congregation gathers in groups to talk after services are over. Wheeley's Church, Person County, North Carolina

Congregation gathers in groups to talk after services are over. Wheele...

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Indiana farmer. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Indiana farmer. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo...

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Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi

Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississip...

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A political problem before the voters of San Francisco, California

A political problem before the voters of San Francisco, California

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Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San ...

Significance: The Eagle Cafe was constructed as the first steamship passenger waiting room in San Francisco. It currently serves as a maritime worker's cafe noted for its authentic atmosphere. Survey number: H... More

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

A black and white photo of a group of tents, Migrants' camp. Californi...

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.

Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront, California

Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront, California

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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...

Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://ww... More

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...

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A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Mississippi

A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Missi...

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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...

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Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will be ready for occupancy July, 1936

Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will...

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Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

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Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds of the West"

Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds o...

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

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

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

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

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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation. Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi

Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...

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Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the Wray Plantation, Georgia

Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the W...

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Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, but almost all the houses stand empty. The people scattered

Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, ...

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Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. These people are not migrants, but live on the edge of the ranches and work in peas and melons

Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial...

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Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

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Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

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Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

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In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read news of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. Most of San Francisco's Chinese are Cantonese

In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read ...

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Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween party at Shafter camp for migrants, California

Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween ...

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Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico

Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico

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Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the ...

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Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new start on cut-over land. Priest River Penninsula, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 51

Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new...

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

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Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who picks beans during vacation time. See general caption number 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who p...

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Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake

Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tu...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. San Francisco, California

Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. Sa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages twelve, sixteen, and eighteen, are needed at home to develop the farm and do not go to school. Malheur County, Oregon

George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You never know what may happen." Yamhill farms. (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Yamhill County, Williamette Valley, Oregon

Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina

Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived h...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mrs. Soper tells how it was when they first came. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 72

Mrs. Soper tells how it was when they first came. Willow Creek area, M...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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