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Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California.

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or…

Waiting for Work: Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit and vegetable harvests. Coachella Valley, California.

Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) left Madison, Wisconsin, for California in 1849 and remained in the West until 1858. On his return to Wisconsin, Fairchild carved out a remarkable career as a soldier-politician: serving in a Wisconsin regiment in the…

Will Neal age 63 - Arvin. Playing since 14 yrs (handwritten on reverse) b) Will Neal...champion fiddler in Arvin Camp. Won many fiddlin' contests. 1940. (typed and attached)

1 photographic print. | Migrant worker, veteran of World War I, reclining on ground, with a dog and a boy, near Winters, California.

1 photographic print. | Two girls(?), head-and-shoulders portrait, Nipomo, California.

"This family of 7 were camped on a flat during the potato harvest, without tent, without water. Water from nearby service station at 5 cents per bucket."

Two migrant children on small wagon.

Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html