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Farm worker children in front of a sign for a government migrant worker community

During the 1940s, many migrant farm worker families lived in government-sponsored camps as they moved from place to place

CREDIT: Hemmig, Robert. "Group of Children Posing Under Sign That Reads "U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community." 1941. Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941, Library of Congress



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