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Automobile Camp North of Calipatria, California, March 1937

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Auto camp north of Calipatria, California.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Lange, Dorothea, "Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor," March 1937

Description

This photograph shows an automobile makeshift camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately 80 families from the Dust Bowl were camped here. They paid 50 cents a week, and the only available work to them was agricultural labor.

Source-Dependent Questions

  • What do you observe in the camp?
  • How would a camp like this help people survive the Great Depression and Dust Bowl?

Citation Information 

Lange, Dorothea, "Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor," March 1937. Courtesy of Library of Congress