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

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

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

Three related Oklahoma drought refugee families near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Three related Oklahoma drought refugee families near Lordsburg, New Me...

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

Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California

Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, Calif...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camp of migratory agricultural workers. Imperial County, California

Camp of migratory agricultural workers. Imperial County, California

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

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexic...

Additional information on caption card: See 16676-C [i.e. LC-USF34-016676-C]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washin... More

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

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

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests

Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests

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

"This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, California

"This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, Cali...

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

Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultrual workers' camp near Calipatria, California

Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultrual workers' camp near Calip...

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

Camp talent provides music for dancing at Shafter camp for migrants. Halloween party, Shafter, California

Camp talent provides music for dancing at Shafter camp for migrants. H...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They ...

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

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. W...

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

Near Brentwood, California. Winter quarters of migrants. Agricultural laborers

Near Brentwood, California. Winter quarters of migrants. Agricultural ...

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

Camp manager, migratory worker, and visitor to the camp in discussion. Shafter camp for migrants, California

Camp manager, migratory worker, and visitor to the camp in discussion....

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young girl, migratory worker, beside the tent in which she lives. Kern County, California

Young girl, migratory worker, beside the tent in which she lives. Kern...

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

Children of migrants sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

Children of migrants sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

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

U.S. 99. On ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley over which migrants travel back and forth

U.S. 99. On ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between ...

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

Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The child is a flood refugee of March 1939 from southeast Missouri

Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The chil...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Father and son planting potatoes. These people are lettuce workers, migrants from Southwest

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Father and son planting potatoes. Th...

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

Truckload of Mexican migrants returning from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Highway near Neches, Texas, Anderson County

Truckload of Mexican migrants returning from Mississippi where they ha...

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Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The child is a flood refugee from southeast Missouri

Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The chil...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant woman from Arkansas living in contractor's camp near Westley, California

Migrant woman from Arkansas living in contractor's camp near Westley, ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Non-farm migrants from Mississippi, came west in 1935. They have just applied for work in the Gilchrist lumber mill. Gilchrist, Oregon. See general caption 76

Non-farm migrants from Mississippi, came west in 1935. They have just ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno. Migrants on the road. California. See general caption

Between Tulare and Fresno. Migrants on the road. California. See gener...

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

Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. This is an Arkansawyers auto camp, filled almost completely with Arkansawyers recently in California. Rent ten dollars per month for one room, iron bed, electric light. (This community is subject of a study by Regional Office, BAE, Land Utilization Division, Berkely, California)

Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, Califor...

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On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. See general caption 1

On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. M...

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

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, Virginia. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Members of the Loomis Fruit Association cooperative at their fortieth annual meeting. Loomis, Placer County, California. Notice the Japanese. The Japanese are slowly moving into this section as are some migrants from Oklahoma

Members of the Loomis Fruit Association cooperative at their fortieth ...

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

Migrants getting truck ready to leave Belcross, North Carolina for Onley, Virginia

Migrants getting truck ready to leave Belcross, North Carolina for Onl...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Migrants leaving North Carolina had to leave this stove behind; it was rented from a farmer. Near Belcross, North Carolina

Migrants leaving North Carolina had to leave this stove behind; it was...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mot...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/prin... More

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, Californ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Florida migrants waiting for truck to take them from Belcross, North Carolina to another job at Onley, Virginia

Florida migrants waiting for truck to take them from Belcross, North C...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In a trailer settlement of migrants working at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

In a trailer settlement of migrants working at Fort Bragg. Near Fayett...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Batavia, New York. West Virginia migrants arriving in a drizzling rain

Batavia, New York. West Virginia migrants arriving in a drizzling rain

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CPL. E.F. Brown, Golf Company, 2D Battalion, 4th Marines, carries a Haitian migrant child off the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20). This child was one of the last migrants to leave the COMFORT as it is no longer being used as a Migrant processing center, and has been moved from Kingston, Jamaica, to Guantanamo Bay.(Exact date unknown)

CPL. E.F. Brown, Golf Company, 2D Battalion, 4th Marines, carries a Ha...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT. M.T. Huff Release Status: Released to Publi... More

This is the latest camp to be set up for the Cuban migrants. In the foreground is where supplies come in

This is the latest camp to be set up for the Cuban migrants. In the fo...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Camp India State: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Richard Piening Release ... More

PFC. Karen Hobbs, of Ft. Campbell, KY., works with a migrant worker to transfer the meal from pot to insulated containers for transport to the camps. The galley is operated by different Army units to provide hot meals to the migrants

PFC. Karen Hobbs, of Ft. Campbell, KY., works with a migrant worker to...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: AIRMAN 1ST Class Vince Jones Release Status: Re... More

Cuban migrants dance the afternoons away at the W. T. Sampson Elementary School's playground. Cuban children are brought to the school every afternoon for both a diversion from camp life and also for some fun

Cuban migrants dance the afternoons away at the W. T. Sampson Elementa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PO3 Lou Caporaletti, Jr. Release... More

Buses loaded with Cuban migrants are loaded onto the ferry for a trip to the air terminal. A group of 195 migrants are heading for the United States. The group consists of accompanied and unaccompanied minors under age 17 and people over 70

Buses loaded with Cuban migrants are loaded onto the ferry for a trip ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: P02 Wendy Hamme Release Status: ... More

Prescription medication is counted out for a patient at the 6th Air Transportable Hospital Mental Health Clinic. Migrants are interviewed by doctors to see what treatment they may need. Most are treated by counseling, some by medication, and the serious cases are kept in a holding facility located in the old Naval Base Brig to keep them from hurting themselves and others

Prescription medication is counted out for a patient at the 6th Air Tr...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Vince Jones Release Status: Released to Pub... More

A U.S. Air Force C-17 is unloaded of supplies for both troops and migrants staying at Guantanamo Bay

A U.S. Air Force C-17 is unloaded of supplies for both troops and migr...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Vince Jones Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Cuban migrants who are considered dangerous to themselves and others are kept under close supervision by military police, US Air Force, Army and Marine Corps personnel upon their arrival

Cuban migrants who are considered dangerous to themselves and others a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Vince Jones Release Status: Released to Publi... More

Hard back tent frames are lined up at Camp Five. U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Port Hueneme, California, and Cuban migrant carpenters are working together to improve quality of life for the migrants in Guantanamo Bay

Hard back tent frames are lined up at Camp Five. U.S. Navy Seabees fro...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL Base: Mccalla Field State: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: AIRMAN Elizabeth Steward Re... More

A close up shot of photographs taken of Asian migrants temporarily detained at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, during Operation MARATHON. The photos help identify those in charge and those who assisted in the smuggling operation. Operation MARATHON is a US Atlantic Command operation provided to process and identify migrants involved in the illegal smuggling of migrants by ship into the United States

A close up shot of photographs taken of Asian migrants temporarily det...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: MARATHON Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: P01 Todd Cichonowicz Release Status: Released to Pu... More

ALIEN MIGRANT INTERDICTION OPERATION

ALIEN MIGRANT INTERDICTION OPERATION

Midway Island, North Hawaiian Islands (Aug. 28) -- TC2 Maurice Frazier, CGC Jarvis, stands a vigilant guard during the migrant offload at the atoll. On Aug. 24, boarding team members from the cutters Kukui and ... More

ALIEN MIGRANT INTERDICTION OPERATION

ALIEN MIGRANT INTERDICTION OPERATION

Midway Island, Northern Hawaiian Islands (Aug. 27) -- Migrants aboard the Yu Xing cling to their life's belongings, waiting for their unknown fate at Midway. On Aug. 24, boarding team members from the cutters K... More

Key West Florida - CGC THETIS INTERCEPT MIGRANTS

Key West Florida - CGC THETIS INTERCEPT MIGRANTS

KEY WEST, Fla. (March 18)--The Coast Guard Cutter Thetis turned 234 Ecuadorians over to authorities in Ecuador after intercepting their boat as they tried to make their way to the United States. U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO

Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk interdicts Haitian migrants

Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk interdicts Haitian migrants

The Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk crew interdicts a group of Haitian migrants July 11, 2017, approximately 22 miles south of Great Inagua, Bahamas.

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute

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

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/pri... More

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...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with one of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/pri... More

Multiple Haitian migrants sit on the deck of a freighter

Multiple Haitian migrants sit on the deck of a freighter

Multiple Haitian migrants sit on the deck of a freighter during an interdiction conducted Sunday, Mar. 11, 2018 by the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma crew approximately 30 miles east of Great Inagua, Bahamas. Approx... More

Group of migrants at the Bathurst Migrant Centre, 1949 (8400334899)

Group of migrants at the Bathurst Migrant Centre, 1949 (8400334899)

Black and white photograph of a group of people at the Bathurst Migrant Centre. '1949' written on the reverse. The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold abou... More

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, Califor...

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr... More

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children of Mexican cotton laborers. Casa Grande, Arizona

Children of Mexican cotton laborers. Casa Grande, Arizona

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa

The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

The slums of Brawley. Homes of Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

The slums of Brawley. Homes of Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley,...

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

Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tennessee ex-farmers drifting around, looking for work in cotton

Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tenness...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on the outskirts of Porterville, California, waiting for work in the orange groves

Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on the outskirts of...

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

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

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.

House in "Little Oklahoma," California

House in "Little Oklahoma," California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. This is a proposed location of Resettlement Administration migrant camp

Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. T...

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

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

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...

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Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. "Anybody as wants to work can get by. But if a person loses their faith in the soil like so many of them back there in Oklahoma, then there ain't no hope for them. We're making it all right here, all but for the schooling, 'cause that boy of mine, he wants to go to the University"

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California ...

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

"Little Oklahoma," the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato and cotton fields. California

"Little Oklahoma," the community that grew out of the need for help in...

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

Children of destitute family. American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Children of destitute family. American River camp, near Sacramento, Ca...

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

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

Camp for migrants near Birmingham, Alabama

Camp for migrants near Birmingham, Alabama

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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

Agriculture workers during Great Depression. A man standing next to a pile of apples.

Agriculture workers during Great Depression. A man standing next to a ...

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

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...

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

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Refugee families near Holtville, California

Refugee families near Holtville, California

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Water supply: an open settling basin from the irrigation ditch in a California squatter camp near Calipatria

Water supply: an open settling basin from the irrigation ditch in a Ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. No. 54, north of El Paso, Texas. One of the westward routes of the migrants

U.S. No. 54, north of El Paso, Texas. One of the westward routes of th...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, California

Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, Californ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, 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. ...

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Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They ...

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

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

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

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

Strathmore, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters

Strathmore, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters

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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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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...

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Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school. The camp was near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers ...

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Child of migrants. He is sick with measles. Edinburg, Texas

Child of migrants. He is sick with measles. Edinburg, Texas

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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