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·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Front of multiple family dwelling in Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.), each unit will house six families, each family occupies two stories, completely separate from others.

·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Detail of front view of multiple family dwellings in Yuba City farm workers community, (F.S.A.) Each unit to house six families, each family occupies two stories, for hot weather, bedrooms on second floor ventilation by flaps which provide through ventilation and wall construction of a sheet material which is finished surface and insulation. Construction just completed.

·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Multiple family dwellings of the Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.). Buildings are oriented for winter sunlight and prevailing breezes.

·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Multiple family dwellings of the Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.). Construction just completed of six units for families, members of which are steadily employed in the vicinity; note the elimination of telephone poles.

·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Ryer Island, Sacramento County, California. Housing in barracks for Japanese crew of asparagus packers and their families on ranch world's largest asparagus district.

·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Rear Shafter, Kern County, California. Company housing for potato and cotton pickers on U.S. Highway 99.

·         Labor housing

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.

·         Labor housing / Agricultural laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about Chandler, Maricopa, County, Arizona. One unit of agricultural labor housing. FSA cooperative part-time farm after three years of occupancy. There are four units, each with 8 apartments. Rentals $9. to $13. per month, plus $6. for utilities. Operated in conjunction with 300 acre dairy farm.

·         Labor housing / Agricultural laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona. One unit of agricultural labor housing. FSA cooperative part-time farm after three years of occupancy. There are four units, each with 8 apartments. Rentals $9. to $13. per month plus $6. for utilities. Operated in conjunction with 300-acre dairy farm.

·         Labor housing / Agricultural laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona. Housing on FSA cooperative part-time farm, after 3 years of occupancy.

·         Labor housing / Automobiles / Trees / Work camps / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Portion of the Davis camp seen from the roof of Mr. Davis' store.

·         Labor housing / Bicycle & tricycles / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Two-room cabins, with inside running water, provided in labor camp of large-scale fruit ranch, for year-round workers. Seasonal workers occupy a tent village adjoining.

·         Labor housing / Bicycles & tricycles

o        Description: This page contains information about Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona. One unit of agricultural labor housing. FSA cooperative part-time farm after three years of occupancy. There are four units, each with 8 apartments. Rentals $9. to $13. per month plus $6. for utilities. Operated in conjunction with 300-acre dairy farm.

·         Labor housing / Children / Boys / Work camps / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Another view of the Davis Auto Camp housing.

·         Labor housing / Children / Girls / Work camps / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Quarters for agricultural workers on and off relief provided in the Davis Auto Camp.

·         Labor housing / Children / Shrubs

o        Description: This page contains information about Shafter, Kern County, California. Another farm labor home in the Arvin Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.). These homes are designed for agricultural workers steadily employed in the District. Rent is $8.20 per month, which includes electricity.

·         Labor housing / Clotheslines

o        Description: This page contains information about Dern County, California. Company housing for field workers. Two privies. Seventeen family units. Water from the well. Families pay for electricity only. Ranch raises cotton, hay grapes.

·         Labor housing / Clotheslines

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.

·         Labor housing / Clotheslines

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.

·         Labor housing / Clotheslines / Privies / Mobile homes

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.

·         Labor housing / Community centers

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Sewing center in Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.), for occupants of labor homes.

·         Labor housing / Construction camps / Employment / Winter

o        Description: This page contains information about Landscape with buildings

·         Labor housing / Construction camps / Employment / Winter

o        Description: This page contains information about Landscape (poor quality)

·         Labor housing / Cotton plantations / Tents / Afro-Americans

o        Description: This page contains information about Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Quarters for Negro cotton pickers on industrialized cotton farm.

·         Labor housing / Croplands

o        Description: This page contains information about Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, California. Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from water tower, during pea harvesting season, showing pea fields beyond. Note steel shelters, tents, unoccupied tent platforms, trailers. 174 families, 748 persons in camp. Sixty percent on (F.S.A.) cash relief grants. Many families have been forced to leave the government camps because labor contractors control the field work and demand that workers live in contractor camps.

·         Labor housing / Croplands / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Shafter, Kern County, California. Looking down on part of the Shafter Farm Labor Camp (F.S.A.) in cotton and potato district. This is one of the older camps opened in 1937. The third of fifteen camps now operating (June 1940).

·         Labor housing / Fences / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Close-up of home in Louis' Camp.

·         Labor housing / Fences / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. A home in Louis' Camp.

·         Labor housing / Fruit industry / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Housing provided for year-round employees, in labor camp, large-scale fruit ranch. The larger house in foreground is occupied by the camp manager.

·         Labor housing / Gardens / Community centers

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Multiple family dwelling of the Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.). Photograph made from top of water tower. Homes designed for families with a member steadily employed in the vicinity; six families occupy each unit. Small buildings in center contain social center, laundry, and sewing rooms. Each family to be allotted separate garden plot. Construction just completed.

·         Labor housing / Huts

o        Description: This page contains information about Kern County, California. Housing on abandoned grower's ranch camp, now being occupied as permanent residence by agricultural workers on and off relief. Note irrigator's boots before door.

·         Labor housing / Landscape pavilions / Croplands

o        Description: This page contains information about Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, California. Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from water tower, during pea harvesting season, showing pea fields beyond. Note steel shelters, tents, trailers, and emergency community school (large tent) for migrant children. 174 families, 748 persons in camp. Sixty percent on (F.S.A.) cash relief grants. Many families have been forced to leave the government camps because labor contractors control the field work and demand that workers live in contractor camps.

·         Labor housing / Pails / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Quarters for agricultural workers on and off relief provided in the Davis Auto Camp. Note bucket (covered with white cloth) which contains drinking water.

·         Labor housing / Refuse disposal

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. Garbage disposal unit in Yuba County, near Yuba City, California, in Yuba City. Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.).

·         Labor housing / Shelters / Health care facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Sutter County, near Yuba City, California. View of camp for seasonal workers in Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.). Note steel shelters, a type of housing which replaces the use of tents in the newer camps. Note clinic of Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association (F.S.A.).

·         Labor housing / Streets / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about North of Sacramento, Sacramento, California. Looking down one of the five short streets leading from the highway in Louis' Camp.

·         Labor housing / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. A view of Louis' Camp seen from across the road. Note crowding of structures, as many as possible on the available space. Rent for ground alone is $3 per month.

·         Labor housing / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Louis' Camp just outside the city limits. 150 families pay ground rent ($3 per month) and erect their own shelters. Serves as winter quarters for many migrant seasonal agricultural worker families. Mexican, white, and a few Negro families, together with Filipino men, inhabit the camp.

·         Labor housing / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. A typical dwelling in Louis' Camp.

·         Labor housing / Work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Shafter, Kern County, California. A farm labor home (F.S.A.). One of forty on a tract which joins the migratory labor camp (F.S.A.). The homes are designed for workers who have steady employment in the district. The rent is $8.20 per month, which includes electricity and water. Note camp for migratory workers beyond.

·         Labor housing / Work camps / Children / Dogs / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Entrance to Davis Auto Camp. Family with 10 children live in the trailer on the left.

·         Laboratories / Blood / Hospitals / Microscopes / People associated with health & safety / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A young technician in the hospital laboratory, preparing a blood count.

·         Laboratories / Blood / Hospitals / People associated with health & safety / Women / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Four technicians and a patient in the hospital laboratory. A blood test patient.

·         Laboratories / Hospitals / Examinations / Chemists / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Tom Arase, former California Bio-Chemistry student, performs a gastro analysis in the center hospital laboratory.

·         Laboratories / Hospitals / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / People associated with health & safety

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. In the laboratory at the center hospital, Iiuao Oyama, laboratory technician, performs a urinalysis. Oyama, a former Californian of Japanese ancestry, now resides at the Jerome Center.

·         Laboratory schools / Indian schools / Buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about View From Near Hospital, 1909

·         Laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. N.Y.A. boys at work behind Harwood Foundation.

·         Laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about The crew: Marshall Fry, Claude Fry, Mose Fry, L.D. Blondell, Wm. Reives, E.E. Dunbar, Gene Fry, W.T. Reinhards, Jean Ewen.

·         Laborers / Brick industry / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Factories / Building materials industry / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Adobe factory. Wheeling adobe bricks from stand to drying racks in the sun.

·         Laborers / Bridge construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “Hanging the floor on the sand and gravel conveyor bridge.“

·         Laborers / Camps

o        Description: This page contains information about A narrative report compiled by Camp Superintendent Harvey Hoff on Camp DG-60, Hagerman, Idaho. 7:30 O'Clock Work Call. The men are turned over to the Work Agency and they are being informed of changes in assignment. The punctuality of this ocurrence is considered by John Simmons, on the extreme right, reliable enough for him to 'peg up' his Ingersoll.

·         Laborers / Canal construction / Building materials / Civil engineering / Progress photographs / Structural frames

o        Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Headworks excavation and tunnel portal timbering.

·         Laborers / Canal construction / Canals / Equipment / Horse teams / Horse railroads / Civil engineering / Progress photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Fly Creek siphon and concrete mixer, looking east.

·         Laborers / Canal construction / Canals / Horse teams / Animals / Employment / Progress photographs / Yokes / Horse railroads

o        Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Just starting tunnel No. 2 at west portal, Huntley Main Canal, Division 1.

·         Laborers / Canal Construction / Equipment / Concrete / Employment / Building materials / Civil engineering

o        Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Concrete mixer at Cross Cut Tunnell. Sand and gravel bins deliver direct to mixer.

·         Laborers / Cliffs / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “High-scalers working on Arizona abutment.“

·         Laborers / Concrete

o        Description: This page contains information about Man smoothing concrete

·         Laborers / Construction / Equipment / Reinforced concrete construction / Hydraulic facilities / Progress photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Arrow Creek Crossings, showing paving blocks of concrete being placed. Smith mixer on bank.

·         Laborers / Construction / Hydraulic facilities / Aqueducts / Progress photographs / Employment / Building materials

o        Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Flume 502. Showing forms partially up and bars in place.

·         Laborers / Culverts

o        Description: This page contains information about Work crew standing with concrete culverts

·         Laborers / Culverts

o        Description: This page contains information about Concrete culverts are rolled into place

·         Laborers / Dam construction / Cableways

o        Description: This page contains information about “Workmen going on shift in skip operated over Six Companies Inc., Cableway No. 9.“

·         Laborers / Dam construction / Cofferdams / Hoisting machinery

o        Description: This page contains information about “Workman placing steel piling in cofferdam cell.“

·         Laborers / Dam construction / Concrete

o        Description: This page contains information about “Grouting crew at work on upper levels of Arizona abutment. The grout mixture is being introduced into 50-foot holes under 100-pounds per square inch pressure supplied from grout rig stationed below.“

·         Laborers / Dam construction / Vehicles / Transportation

o        Description: This page contains information about “Double-decked coach used in transporting Six Companies, Inc., workmen from Boulder City to dam. Capacity 150 men.“

·         Laborers / Dams / Hoisting machinery / Building materials / Employment

o        Description: This page contains information about Stock pile practically exhausted, Lower Yellowstone dam.

·         Laborers / Digging

o        Description: This page contains information about Work crew of men moving rocks

·         Laborers / Digging

o        Description: This page contains information about Truck trails. One of the maintenance crews.

·         Laborers / Digging

o        Description: This page contains information about Truck trails. Shank's crew on road maintenance.

·         Laborers / Drilling / Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “Jackhammers on west side bedrock.“

·         Laborers / Drilling / Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “Jackhammers on west bedrock.“

·         Laborers / Drilling / Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “Jackhammers on west bedrock.“

·         Laborers / Drilling / Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “Jackhammers in west bedrock.“

·         Laborers / Employment / Stone quarrying / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about Detailed view showing face of quarry, Lower Yellowstone dam.

·         Laborers / Equipment / Portrait photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Stock Driveway. John Simmon's crew. This crew has worked on construction of stone snow fences, the Stock Driveway, and rock excavation.

·         Laborers / Farming / Willows

o        Description: This page contains information about CCC workers planting willow sprouts

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