Dorothea Lange#Calipatria, #ImperialValley. In #FSAFarmSecurityAdministration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left #Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on #third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left #McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and #Parowan, #Utah, a distance of #700miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, #Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for #Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving #FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in #Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."
