#CasaGrande project #FarmSecurityAdministration), #Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from #Oklahoma and #Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on #WorkProjectsAdministration
#Washington, #YakimaValley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from #Bismark,NorthDakota. "Came to #Washington three years ago in that #Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had #480acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quarters of an acre in shacktown near #Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."
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#Washington, western, #ThurstonCounty. #MaloneCompany house in abandoned mill village now occupied by #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA) worker. General caption number 39
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Untitled photo, possibly related to: #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. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near #Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."
Untitled photo, possibly related to: #Washington, western, #ThurstonCounty. #MaloneCompany house in abandoned mill village now occupied by #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA) worker. General caption number 39
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off that is in #WorkProjectsAdministration- 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of #Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for #Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." #YakimaValley, #Washington
Untitled photo, possibly related to: #KernCounty, #California. Camp of two related families seen from #U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to #California in 1920 from #Missouri. Father had job for eight years. Was gang foreman on #LosAngelesAqueduct; laid off two months ago. Now on way north looking for work. Doesn't want to go on #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA)
Textile factory built by #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA) and leased to private industry to bring payroll to #Brookhaven, #Mississippi
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Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off that is in #WorkProjectsAdministration- 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of #Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for #Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." #YakimaValley, #Washington
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#KernCounty, #California. Camp of two related families seen from #U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to #California in 1920 from #Missouri. Father had job for eight years. Was gang foreman on #LosAngelesAqueduct; laid off two months ago. Now on way north looking for work. Doesn't want to go on #WorkProjectsAdministration WPA)
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Dorothea Lange