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- 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…

The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Typical outside toilet, Cincinatti, Ohio

Rear of migrant's truck with dog underneath it. Getting ready to leave for California. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma.

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

A bunch of bullets grow on a grape vine. Two of the bullets have been fired and the empty shells are smoking

1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

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- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.
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