Food of the Migrant Workers

Migrant girl gathering up pots and pans to pack into automobile at roadside camp near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Muskogee County

Migrant girl scraping plates after noonday meal along the highway near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Muskogee County

Country store. Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Practical and Dainty Recipes: Luncheons and Dinner Giving in Woodward, Oklahoma

Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Kitchen cabinet in the house of agricultural day laborer living near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This was the only food in the house. The father had always been a day laborer; the two children have never attended school. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road occasionally as migrant workers. They have been to Arizona several times to pick cotton. The man went there this fall. In this picture they are picking overipe fruit that they picked up at vegetable packing places

Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road…

Food on table in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Food supply of migrant family. American River camp near Sacramento, California

Tent interior in a pea pickers' camp. Food supply and household equipment. Santa Clara County, California

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