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Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from eleven states are camped in the brush along the highway. No water, no toilets provided. This is a newly developed potato area. Large scale industrialized farming, 3000 additional acres under cultivation this year for the first time.
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Credit lineWaiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from eleven states are camped in the brush along the highway. No water, no toilets provided. This is a newly developed potato area. Large. 1938-01-01. Lange, Dorothea. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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