MAKE A MEME View Large Image Maricopa County, Arizona. Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman . . . - NARA - 522241.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Chandler Maricopa County Arizona Cotton pickers improving their housing from ...
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Keywords: Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona. Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman . . . - NARA - 522241.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Chandler Maricopa County Arizona Cotton pickers improving their housing from Santa Ana Coleman County Texas Lost their farm in 1937 Worked on halves for one year then went to day labor driving tractor for 1 00 to 1 50 per day Blames crop reduction program and change from teams to tractor operation of larger farms Never did pay a poll tax Would have paid if I could Arrived in Arizona Sept 1940 Wife ill Now picking cotton camping in private camp paying 75 per week ground rent Entire camp uses water and toilet of an abandoned nearby service station General notes 522241 Local identifier 83-G-44072 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Lange Dorothea 1895-1965 Photographer 1372774 <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 11/1940 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-44072 Other versions <gallery> File Chandler _Maricopa_County _Arizona _Cotton_pickers_improving_their_housing _from_Santa_Ana _Coleman_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522241 tif tif File Chandler _Maricopa_County _Arizona _Cotton_pickers_improving_their_housing _from_Santa_Ana _Coleman_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522241 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Chandler Arizona
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