#Calipatria, #ImperialValley, In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left #McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and #Parowan, #Utah, a distance of #700miles. Picked peas through September. Went to #Hollister, #California. Picked peas through October. #LeftHollister for #Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving #FarmSecurityAdministration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in #Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."
#FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA
Untitled photo, possibly related to: #TulareCounty. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migrant agricultural workers. Nursery school, showing migrant children playing. #California
#TulareCounty. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migrant agricultural workers. Nursery school, showing migrant children playing. #California
Untitled photo, possibly related to: #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) cooperative farm, #LakeDick, #Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young #Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state
Near #Manteca, #California. November 1938. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) tenant purchase clients, Greeks, from #IsleofCrete, formerly rehabilitation clients. Taken from ditch-bank. Had fifteen cows, now have fifty-five
Young migrant mother with six weeks old baby born in a hospital with aid of #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) medical and association for migratory workers. She lives in a labor contractors camp near #Westley, #California. "I try to keep him eatin' and sleepin' regular like I got him out of the hospital."
Young migrant mother with six weeks old baby born in a hospital with aid of #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) medical and association for migratory workers. She lives in a labor contractors camp near #Westley, #California. "I try to keep him eatin' and sleepin' regular like I got him out of the hospital."
#TulareCounty, #California. In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migratory workers. Baby with club feet wearing homemade splints inside shoes
#TulareCounty, #California. In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Mother with sick baby awaits arrival of #FSA camp resident nurse
#TulareCounty, #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp. Migrant mother and child at doorway of steel shelter
#TulareCounty, at #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp at #Farmersville, #California
#TulareCounty, at #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp at #Farmersville, #California
#FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) rural rehabilitation client. #TulareCounty, #California
Son-in law of migratory family in #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) labor camp. #Calipatria, #ImperialValley, #California
Daughter of migratory family in #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) labor camp. #Calpatria, #ImperialValley, #California
#Brawley, #ImperialValley. In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) migratory labor camp. Family father, mother and eleven children originally from Mangrum, #Oklahoma. See 19201
Young migrant mother who lives in one of the tents. #California. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) emergency camp. #Calipatria
#Brawley, #ImperialValley, In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) migratory labor camp. See 19201 for complete background
#Brawley, #ImperialValley, In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) migratory labor camp. See 19201 for complete background
#Brawley, #ImperialValley, In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) migratory labor camp. See 19201 for complete background