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Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hundreds of families pouring in for jobs. Texas
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Credit lineOutskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hundreds of families pouring in for jobs. Texas. 1937-01-01. Lange, Dorothea. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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