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| Keywords: Edison, Kern County, California. The town of Edison, a potato town in a nearly developing large-scal . . . - NARA - 521781.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Edison Kern County California The town of Edison a potato town in a nearly developing large-scale potato district Shows camp for migratory potato pickers across field of potatoes already picked Shows packing sheds along railroad tracks 27 250 acres of potatoes were planted in Kern County in 1940 Over 200 families encamped in tents and trailers during this potato season but not getting much work in the fields because of locals By locals are meant ex-migratory workers who are now settling in this district in shacktowns and auto camps etc and who are living on relief during slack seasons Last year there was a large squatter camp on this site This year because of the count ordinance prohibiting squatter camps the pickers pay 6 per month for the right to pitch their tent and 8 per month for trailer space to a man who has leased the ground as an auto court General notes 521781 Local identifier 83-G-41537 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 1940-04-11 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-41537 Other versions <gallery> File Edison _Kern_County _California _The_town_of_Edison _a_potato_town_in_a_nearly_developing_large-scal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521781 tif tif File Edison _Kern_County _California _The_town_of_Edison _a_potato_town_in_a_nearly_developing_large-scal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521781 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Fields in California Edison Potato fields Edison Squatter camp Edison 1940 in California April 1940 in the United States NARA images of Kern County California Black and white photographs of California 1940 in agriculture Edison California Photographs taken on 1940-04-11 | ||||
