Migrant Labor Camps in 1930s

Depicts various migrant labor camps, showcasing makeshift housing and the living conditions of agricultural workers and their families during the Dust Bowl era.

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the American River. About thirty families lived on this flat. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Sacramento (Calif.), California , Sacramento County, Internal migrants, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

Feed mill. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Oklahoma County

Log Transportation: Log Drives. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mr. and Mrs. Faro Caudill bringing a table from their dugout. They are rebuilding their dugout nearer their water well, garden and stocklots. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Pie Town, New Mexico , Catron County

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Excavation KOEMBE rice project. October 1956. Guinea

Wood Preservation - Dipping. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Sawing lumber to length for construction of sanitary units at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp at Stanfield, Oregon. This camp will provide some housing for workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Stanfield, Oregon , Umatilla County

Narajow Station for carrier pigeons; Galicia; photographer: Korps Hofmann.

Toilet facilities at Westley camp. California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Westley, California , Stanislaus County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps, Health & hygiene facilities

Saloman O. and Hilda M. Kujala, barn and sheds, Barre, Mass., Mar. 5, 1937 : Purchased Oct. 20, 1939, Parcel no. 165-4 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, barns, sheds storage structures

Houses under construction at Greenhills project near Cincinnati, Ohio. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ohio , Cincinnati, Ohio , Hamilton County

Original caption: "Barona Indians learn to build houses by doing the work themselves.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Steel mill and workers' houses near Birmingham, Alabama. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Alabama , Birmingham, Alabama , Jefferson County, Steel industry, Labor housing

Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and pulling bolls, or for lack of other winter quarters. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Bottonwillow, California , Kern County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Housing, Labor housing

Foresters At Work: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

K.u.k. Automotive workshop in the cellulose factory Villach. A motor car column.in repair. .

Shearing sheep. Converse County, Wyoming 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

01/01/1958. Quintana Redonda (Soria). The residents of the municipality of Quintana Redonda frequently come to the camp to satisfy their curiosity about the drilling work.

Elsevier photo collection. Destroyed smoking storm Monnickendam. November 1925. Monnickendam

A Westland Digger, gold miner, Hokitika, New Zealand Date: C. 1900s

Stranded in southern California. Belongings of Oklahoma drought refugees camped alongside the road. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Migration, Internal, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

Barn Fire. Original caption: Miscellaneous (barn fire).. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Contract No. 20, Coldbrook-Swift Tunnel, Barre, Hardwick, Greenwich, view of spoil pile at Shaft 12, Quabbin Aqueduct, Hardwick, Mass., Feb. 8, 1934

Wachusett Aqueduct, Italian camp, shoemaker, Berlin, Mass., Oct. 21, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction workers, labor camps

Tree Seeds - Extracting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Kitchen at Little Crow. 1936-06-17T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Farming. 1938-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Orange pickers' camp. Tulare County, California. Rent one dollar per week. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps

The stone industry in Sandvik in Öland.

Rural slums, Oklahoma. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma, Poverty, Rural poor

Farm scene with Tom Reilly, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Near Hotchkiss Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on the same farm. Bell County, Texas. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Bell County, Agricultural laborers, Farms

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Kibbets Kiwath Brenner. Man at work at Kibbets Kiwath Brenner. January 1, 1948. Israel, Rehovot

Corner post fence construction near Balmorhea, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Balmorhea, Texas , Reeves County

Beijing, China Shishahai district ("Lac des Ten Monasterères") , 1913 - China - Stéphane Passet (French - Pékin , Chine Quartier du Shishahai ( « lac des Dix Monastères » )). Landscape, portage, well, water carrier, small trade, lake , pond, cooler, home, hydrography, fortified architecture, hydraulic installation, Nature , Environment, Transport, Economic Activity, Habitat , Architecture

House Construction. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Foot-and-mouth disease in Lambertschaag (Noord Holland), (cattle farmer A. Zee); Disinfection of the farm. January 31, 1984. Lambertschaag

Houses inhabited by oyster workers, Shellpile, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Pumping water out of a basement. Greenhills, Ohio. Photographs. 1937-02. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ohio , Greenhills, Ohio , Hamilton County, Floods

Waste pile at bus garage.

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Family farms, Assistance, Rural families

Sharecroppers, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. 1935 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Fire In Camp. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Tree Seeds - Extracting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Children of internal migrants, Children of migrant laborers

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Dutch Guinea: visit UN representatives Cuba Columbia agricultural testing station government training. Dr. Emilio Núñez Portuondo Cuba Dr. Francisco Urutia, Columbia-permanent representatives United Nations- ronule field agricultural testing station Kota Nica, Papua's receive agricultural technical training. August 1955. Guinea

Administrative Sites - Supervisor's Offices. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Vintage Photograph. Several construction workers working on a new house.

Newly-arrived farm workers talking to the Idaho state employment representative at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Wilder, Idaho , Canyon County

Logging: Camps and Crew: Crews. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Brawley, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers, Dwellings

Pigeon Cove, Mass. , Animal traps, Lobsters, Buildings. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Vintage Photograph. Construction progress on a new residential home in a developing area.

Hop pickers and kiln. Yakima County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County

Operation 'Alert' 1957 , Hoses, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Farm scene with Tom Reilly, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Near Hotchkiss, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Carpenters working on construction at the Polish National Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, PA. The photograph shows the progress made in just two weeks. This image is a part of the records of the S.A.T.C. (Student Army Training Corps) at the college. It may have been issued for official use.

Guy L. Marvell, chicken house, Dana, Mass., Sep. 11, 1939 : Parcel no. 433-43 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, chicken houses

Lord's blacksmiths or noble Wooden Forge and A Group of People Next To It Greim, F.

Project 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. Post Shot Easy - Damage to Building 325. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Isolation unit at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona. These units are designed for isolation of persons with contagious diseases of temporary nature. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Agua Fria, Arizona , Maricopa County

Shafter camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Tent platforms are supplied. Workers supply their own tents. The newer camps are experimenting with prefabricated steel one-room houses. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps

Inspection of an automatic station on Mälaröarna at the end of the 1940s. Kåell (LME), Vigren, Patriks and Over Engineer Holmgren.

Machinery against the garage on Matt Henry's farm near Tipler, Wisconsin. Note primitive scythe rake 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Tipler, Wisconsin , Florence County

Dam #9 Full to Recently Completed Wire Box. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. building local newspaper ¨De Guinea Courieration Hollandia. July 1960. Guinea

House of James Lafournaise Under Construction. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

Tulare County, California. New homes for families on the Mineral King cooperative farms. This farm is situated on the site of an old ranch. Employs eighteen families; comprises 500 acres of alfalfa and cotton lands. Large-scale farming methods. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Agriculture, Cooperative, Farms

Vintage Photograph. Hoisting hay onto trailer.

Fishermen's Shacks, Marblehead , Huts, Fishermen, Animal traps, Lobsters. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at Shafter, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps

Kitchen at Little Crow. 1936-06-17T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Primitive chicken roost, carved out of hollow log, on farm of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Tree Seeds - Extracting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Contract No. 71, WPA Sewer Construction, Holden, looking back from manhole 4A-4, Holden Sewer Line, Holden, Mass., Jun. 21, 1940

In one of the largest pea camps in California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Migration, Internal, Migrant agricultural laborers, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. Tractor drivers are not allowed to do anything but drive tractors. Repairs are made by the mechanic at the plantation garage. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi, Plantations, Tractors

Distribution Department, Low Service Spot Pond Reservoir Watershed, Joseph W. Wilson's barn on Pond Street, near Doleful Pond, Stoneham, Mass., Oct. 7, 1904 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, watershed sanitary improvement

Stacking hay. Ouray County, Colorado 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado , Ouray County

Forest Fire Equipment: Tool Caches - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration, near Santa Ana, California. This dairy supplies milk to the Civilian Conservation Corps camps nearby. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Santa Ana (Calif.), California , Orange County, Dairy farms, Farms, Dairying, Cooperative

John J. Matson, sheds, Hubbardston, Mass., Apr. 26, 1937 : Purchased Jan. 27, 1936, Parcel no. 205-33 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, sheds storage structures, automobiles

Builder: Building company Contractor, Stockholm. Sulfite factory.

Men working on office building of replacement cantonment of coast artillery. San Diego, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County

Farm scene. Walla Walla County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

Person -fog standing at Sewing Station.

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADIO War

China, sawing wood

Houses under construction at the Navy defense housing project for enlisted men in the Marines and Navy. San Diego, California. May 1941 photo by Russell Lee.

Guy L. Marvell, chicken house, Dana, Mass., Sep. 11, 1939 : Parcel no. 433-43 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, residential structures, chicken houses

Spanish-American farmer chopping wood. Supply of wood is easily available in the nearby forest. Chamisal, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Chamisal, New Mexico , Taos County

Camp of migratory strawberry pickers in grove near Hammond, Louisiana 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Hammond, Louisiana , Tangipahoa Parish

A backyard in Maunie, Illinois, after the flood. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Maunie, Illinois , White County

Elsevier photo collection. miller. Bags corn cart mill. October 1933

Elsevier photo collection. Residential Emmerschans (Drenthe). Plagging peat colonies family. 1922. Drenthe, Emmerschans

Automobiles and tents of sheep shearers on ranch in Malheur County, Oregon. These sheep shearing outfits travel in groups from ten to thirty or more throughout the sheep raising sections 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Malheur County

Separate But Equal privies for the construction workers at Clinton Engineer Works, 1943. Construction workers were building the X-10 facility in Oak Ridge, TN which would house world's the second atomic pile, the X-10 Graphite Reactor. (BSLOC_2014_13_98)

Construction Of A Nissen Hut Of The 2Nd Air Base Group At Patterson Field, Iceland, 8 June 1942.

Blackthunder Home during Repairs / Men Working. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

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