Statement in support of project to establish camps for migrants in California; Tenant farmer in Texas to migrant laborer in California / 1927 made $7000 / 1928 broke even / 1929 went in the hole / 1930 still deeper / 1931 lost everything / 1932 hit road / Marysville Camp Aughst, 1935
Mounted photograph with text. Page from A78.144.20.
Concepts:
tent; housing; agriculture; Dorothea Lange Project: State Emergency Relief Administration; camp; migrant farmworker; labor; Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression; stove; washboard; family; tenant farmer
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