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Keywords: The former recreation hall (repainted and vastly renovated in the early 2000s) in the former Weedpatch camp, south of Bakersfield, California LCCN2013631384.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords provided by the photographer ; Credit line The Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B Lovelace; 2012; DLC/PP-2012 063 ; Forms part of Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Weedpatch Camp a rescue camp for distressed migrant workers whom some disparagingly called Okies who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains The camp was also referred to as the Sunset Camp and was officially known as the Arvin Federal Government Camp Author John Steinbeck called it Weed Patch Camp in his novel The Grapes of Wrath 2013 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2013631384 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/24200/24206a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 24206 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 24206 35 13 3749 0 N 118 54 3528 0 W alt 115_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith
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