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Small girl, Maria, squatting on ground, picking peas, basket beside her.

Poster for Federal Writers' Project of California advertising "American Guide Series" volume on California, showing hourglass.

A native of Maine, Franklin Agustus Buck (1826-1909) was working in New York City when he heard of the gold strikes and set out for California in January 1849. A Yankee trader in the gold rush (1930) contains Buck's letters to his sister in Maine.…

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…

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

1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.

6 photomechanical prints : halftone. | Two page spread of photos and captions about the destitue living conditions of migrant laborers and their families in California, includes a map of the state divided by crop regions; one photo of children…

1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.

1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.