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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.