Family & Community
Dublin Core
Title
Family & Community
Subject
How people came together in a time of struggle and tragedy as they longed for a better life in a what was said to be a better area compared to their own.
Description
Analysis and media derived from the 1930's among the families and communities moving towards California or other remote areas of supposed wealth and jobs.
Collection Items
Image of a photograph depicting an example of family tragedy during the Depression era.
Photo of an evacuation sale during The Great Depression.
Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.
Photograph shows a woman seated with her children at the entrance of a squatter's shelter.
More Oklahomans reach Calif. via the cotton fields of Ariz. ; "We got blowed out in Oklahoma." Share-croppers family near Bakersfield, Apr. 7, 1935
Photograph at top shows a car loaded with people, their belongings and supplies. Photo at bottom shows a woman and children sitting in the grass beside an automobile.
Waving goodbye to migrant family bound for California, Muskogee, Oklahoma
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Migrant family in car enroute to California. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma
1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family. California
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season
1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp. One third had no work; two-thirds were finding part-time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) four dollars and twenty cents a week
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Migrant family from Oklahoma, first occupants of Westley camp. California
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.