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| Keywords: Between Bakersfield and Fresno, California. On the Freights. Twenty years old and he has been hopping freight cars on... - NARA - 532072.tif Scope and content Between Bakersfield and Fresno California On the Freights Twenty years old and he has been hopping freight cars on the bum for two years His home which he has visited occasionally for two or three days at a time is in Oakland California Here his father on Work Projects Administration his mother who is engaged as a domestic when she can find work and his married sister with her child live in a small house where there is a crowded and insecure atmosphere His family is misinformed as to his activities and is not aware of his penchant for freight car travel At one time he enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps but he quit after six months because the army routine was distasteful to him so he went back to hopping the freights He is a complete hobo and is not seriously in search of employment He has no desire to travel as a gentleman hitch-hiker I wouldn t thumb Freights are a lot better General notes 532072 Local identifier 119-CAL-7 Federal Security Agency National Youth Administration 07/01/1939 - 09/17/1942 NARA-Author Partridge Rondal 1917- Photographer 8464464 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1940-04-11 Record group Record Group 119 Records of the National Youth Administration 1934 - 1945 Record group ARC 448 Study of Youth Photographs compiled 1940 - 1940 Series ARC 532065 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-119-CAL-7 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Rondal Partridge | ||||