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Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers.
California
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Pumping water near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Daughters of
farmer about to migrate to California
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Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm
workers on the Pacific Coast. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
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Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm
workers on the Pacific Coast. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
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Father and son building house on outskirts of Salinas,
California. Settlement of recently migrated lettuce workers
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Richwood, West Virgninia. The mayor's office was used as
a recruiting hall for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervised labor
migration
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Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot
field. In California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop
failures. Combined earnings, man and wife tying carrots: One dollar and
twelve cents a day
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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. They work in the fruit during the summer,
migrating from harvest to harvest
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Getting ready to depart from home in Oklahoma for the
trip to California. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma
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Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who
are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. "Broke, baby
sick, and car trouble!"
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War housing needs. Crowds of homeseekers wait in line for
housing information in every "boom town" war housing center. Like
millions of Americans who have migrated to busy industrial areas, these
newcomers to San Francisco are hoping for news that a house, a room, or even
a bed will be made available for them before the day is over
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Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the
outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and
growing family, he has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago.
Migrations include ranch land in Texas, cotton and wheat in Texas, cotton and
timber in New Mexico, peas and potatoes in Idaho, wheat in Colorado, hops and
apples in Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton in Arizona. He wants to buy a
little place in Idaho
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Fruit farmer clearing out irrigation ditch. Placer
County, California. Irrigated farming is a new thing to this man who migrated
from Oklahoma and has now bought a farm through the Federal Land Bank. Fruit
farmers in this section are fast losing their farms due to long indebtedness
to Federal Land Bank and many farms are being bought by Okies and Japanese
who, because of lower living standards and willingness to grow gardens, cows and
pigs instead of specializing exclusively in fruit, have a chance to make a go
of the farms.
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This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm
Security Administration) in Oklahoma. However, he migrated to Arizona two
years ago and spent a year and a half there doing day labor in the cotton and
sugar beet fields. He still has one son in Arizona doing day laborer work.
Another son returned home to his family saying he wanted to be with them all
and all would fare alike; the close family feeling is evident in this class
of people. This man's main complaint was of the poor condition of his house.
He said that owners would do nothing to help the farmer, "Why if I want
a piece of wire to fix a fence, I have to steal it. Of course I have not done
exactly that yet, but if I knew where there was a piece handy I would"
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