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Great Depression Note: Click on the title for a link to the audio file and bibliographic information |
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Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California |
 Breadline at McCauley Water Street Mission under Brooklyn Bridge, New York. |
"Where is Tranquility, Calif.?", she asked ... |
Group of children posing under sign that reads "U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community" |
Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California. |
To harvest the crops of California thousands of families live literally on wheels, San Joaquin Valley |
Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees. |
Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley |
Example of self-resettlement in California. |
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. |
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California. |
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains |
Photograph shows a father and children in a dust storm in Oklahoma, 1936 |
Daughter of FSA client with canned food |
Mother washing children’s feet in a sharecropper’s shack in Missouri (1938) |
“Small girls sitting in doorway of house in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.” |
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