Keywords: Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field - NARA - 532138.tif Scope and content Kern County California Migrant youth in potato field This girl came from the Oklahoma state three years ago and lives with her father in a rural slum in Wasco Kern County where they settled We got mighty tired of roaming around Because they have settled down their jobs in peas potatoes and cotton are obtained less by the hit-and-miss methods and more by knowing local contractors and independent farmers They are now considered locals in the community in which they live The girl never had a chance to finish high school and will be nineteen come August 11 While the girl and her father are away from Wasco on jobs they live in the trailer in which they came from Oklahoma General notes 532138 Local identifier 119-CAL-78 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 1940-04-09 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-78 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Rondal Partridge NARA images of Kern County California Migrant workers |