Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. This is the first family to be selected by Farm Security Administration for housing
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Untitled photo, possibly related to: Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without water and sanitary conditions. Near Shafter, California
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Near Shafter, California. Potatoes are dug by machines and strewn on the ground as the digger goes down the rows. The picker puts the potatoes into sacks suspended from their waist between their knees. The sacks are loaded onto the field trucks and taken to the sheds for sorting and grading. Potato pickers earned forty cents an hour in 1937
Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground. This work requires endurance but no special skill. 1937 wages: forty cents an hour. Shafter, California
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Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California
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Mechanical potato digger in the field. Shafter, California
Potato field and pickers near Shafter, California
Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California
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Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without water and sanitary conditions. Near Shafter, California
Mechanical potato digger near Shafter, California
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