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Migrant agricultural worker planting flowers in front of his metal shelter at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp, Arizona. Migrant workers are allowed to stay in the camps one day less than a year but many make improvements around their individual shelters
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Credit lineMigrant agricultural worker planting flowers in front of his metal shelter at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp, Arizona. Migrant workers are allowed to stay in the camps one day less than a year but. 1940-01-01. Lee, Russell. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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