The last truckload of cotton hoers from #Memphis bound for #theWilsonCottonPlantation in #Arkansas, #43miles distant, June 1937.
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Women being transported from #Memphis, #Tennessee to an #Arkansas plantation, July 1937.
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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. #AldridgePlantation, [near #Leland #Mississippi
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#Fuel station on #theAldridgePlantation. [Near #Leland, #Mississippi
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#Washington, #YakimaValley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from #Bismark,NorthDakota. "Come to #Washington three years ago in that #Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had #480acres back there..."
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Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street on the town while their crops burn up in the fields. "Hello #Bill, when's it gonna rain?" [#Sallisaw, #Okl.
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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...
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Drought refugees from #Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields...
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Main street during 1936 drought. #Sallisaw, #SequoyahCounty, #Oklahoma
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Elementary school students
Accepted applicant for resettlement on the #Hightstown project. #Jewish-American. This man is already employed on the project as carpenter, working on the nearly completed #first unit of thirty-five houses. He says, "Will we succeed? Any people who will go through what we did--any people with such patience--will succeed"
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#Carrot pullers from #Texas. #Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In #California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop failures. Combined earnings, man and wife tying carrots: One dollar and twelve cents a day
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Election poster
Family preparing for mass removal
Orphans at #ManzanarChildrens Village
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People receiving instructions on mass removal
Last washday before mass removal