Culture
Dublin Core
Title
Culture
Description
Songs, travel, and people during the Dust Bowl.
Creator
Lyanne Teopaco, Oliva Torres
Contributor
Lyanne Teopaco, Oliva Torres
Collection Items
An outbuilding of the former Weedpatch camp south of Bakersfield, California
- Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.
- Weedpatch Camp, a "rescue camp" for distressed migrant workers, whom some disparagingly called "Okies," who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains. The camp was also referred…
- Weedpatch Camp, a "rescue camp" for distressed migrant workers, whom some disparagingly called "Okies," who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains. The camp was also referred…
Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees.
Families traveling across the country, finding new places to live.
Atmosphere shot of migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas
A migrant camp in Weslaco, Texas. Refugees often created camps and lived there for some time as they were traveling.
Roll Out the Pickets
Reflects farm workers' struggle to unionize. Parody of "Roll out the Barrel."
ROLL OUT THE PICKETS
Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
Keep up the fight till we've won.
Associated Farmers
Will very soon…
ROLL OUT THE PICKETS
Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
Keep up the fight till we've won.
Associated Farmers
Will very soon…
Songs of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Migrants
An article showcasing some songs and histories written and sung during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl by migrants.
""I'm Going Down this Road Feeling Bad," is a traditional song that may date from an earlier period, but that expresses…
""I'm Going Down this Road Feeling Bad," is a traditional song that may date from an earlier period, but that expresses…
Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California. Heading for the pea harvest but stalled because they have no money to buy a trailer's license
Family of two unable to move forward to their destination in California.
Hard Luck Okie
Poem recorded by the Library of Congress at a migrant farmer’s camp in California in the late 1930s.
Children of migrant agricultural workers in California
Black and white photograph of children inside a car.