Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road occasionally as migrant workers. They have been to Arizona several times to pick cotton. The man went there this fall. In this picture they are picking overipe fruit that they picked up at vegetable packing places
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Title
Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road occasionally as migrant workers. They have been to Arizona several times to pick cotton. The man went there this fall. In this picture they are picking overipe fruit that they picked up at vegetable packing places
Subject
- United States--Oklahoma--Oklahoma County--Oklahoma City.
- Oklahoma City camp--Oklahoma
- Oklahoma--Oklahoma County--Oklahoma City
- migrant workers
-food
-produce
- Oklahoma City camp--Oklahoma
- Oklahoma--Oklahoma County--Oklahoma City
- migrant workers
-food
-produce
Description
Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road occasionally as migrant workers. They have been to Arizona several times to pick cotton. The man went there this fall. In this picture they are picking overipe fruit that they picked up at vegetable packing places
Creator
Russell Lee
Source
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher
Library of Congress
Date
July 1939
Rights
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs
Format
1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Type
photograph
Files
Collection
Citation
Russell Lee, “Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This family had been farmers in Oklahoma until four years ago. Since then they have lived in community camp getting some food from the vegetable dumps, doing "trashing" and going on the road occasionally as migrant workers. They have been to Arizona several times to pick cotton. The man went there this fall. In this picture they are picking overipe fruit that they picked up at vegetable packing places,” Grapes of Wrath, accessed May 16, 2024, https://grapesofwrath.sfsuenglishdh.net/items/show/154.