Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw nearly every family in this camp on emergency relief. Calipatria, California. 1937


Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw nearly every family in this camp on emergency relief. Calipatria, California. 1937


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