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Pea pickers' camp near San Jose, California

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Pea pickers' camp near San Jose, California

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What does the field's dry look show what is going on during this time? (R.A.P)

How come these people are living in a field?

Do you think if you had a car, you were rich? (HJD)

How come it looks like there is only a couple tents compared to the other pictures that have fields full of tents?(LS)

Are the cars owned by the family in the pictures? ZB

Did many people in this town own cars? (CO)

What state is this in? (aga)

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String of five housecars.
This group represents good conditions among pea pickers

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String of five housecars.
This group represents good conditions among pea pickers

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Are there tent cities like this across the country or just in this area?

Can they not afford proper housing?

(DB)

Was this a life style of the lowest class at the time, or did it also include the middle class? (A.L

What do these conditions say about what is going on in America (VC)

Where is this?(CW)

How long did this struggling continue? (AHA)

It looks like they have transportation so how come they stay in one place? (LS)

How come they ended up living in a tent? (QC)

What determines "good conditions"?

Why are these people living in groups? WC

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Dust bowl
farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left
cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat.
(The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've
made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see
that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is
anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right. If you stay in the house and
wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop. But I"ve seen only one
year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something"

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Dust bowl
farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left
cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat.
(The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've
made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see
that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is
anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right. If you stay in the house and
wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop. But I"ve seen only one
year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something"

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Should something be planted here? Why is nothing planted? (J.L.)

Why is their only one tractor? Where is this picture

te field looks dead. Could this be taking place in the winter? T.E

Is the family depicted in the pictures a family of farmers or are they working on someone else's farm? (ZB)

What is the tractor doing if all there is, is dirt? (LS)

Is farming their only income?(DB)

Is this land fertile enough to plant on? (RA)

Is this during a drought? (aga)

How many acres of land do they own? (QC)

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Migrant children from Oklahoma on
California highway

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Migrant children from Oklahoma on
California highway

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Why are all these children in the car? Do they sleep in it together?

How many children are there? Where are their parents and how does that reflect their situation? (Z.L.)

This truck looks old. When does this photo take place? How long have they had this truck? T.E

Where are these kids heading?(LS)

Are most trucks at this time in such bad shape? What does this say about the standard of living in America? (J.L.)

Do the children have to work?(QC)

Where are the parents of the children? (AHA)

What kind of truck is this and how much did it cost? (aga)

Why are these people traveling from Oklahoma to California?(HJD)

What is the significance of California in this time?(HJD)

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Auto camp north
of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are
camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is
agricultural labor

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Auto camp north
of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are
camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is
agricultural labor

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How many people lived like this?(CR)

How come there are only tents instead of houses?

Why does it look like these people are in a waste land?

Were there any commercial building in this area? (HJD)

Are their more settlements like this? (J.L.)

How long have these people been living here?(LS)

Are these permanent homes? (RA)

What do you think the financial state of these people are? (CO)

Does this consist of a whole community? (R.A.P)

Why are they living here? Did they have to leave their own homes? (QC)

How did the Dust Bowl affect jobs involving agricultural labor and the lives of migrant workers? (AHA, MC)

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Mother and
three children in a California squatter camp

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Mother and
three children in a California squatter camp

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why is this family living in a tent? W.C

What is the purpose of the pipe coming out of the tent? (A. L.)

What are the differences between this picture of a woman and her children, and others presented here? What do these differences show? (A L)

How could the family afford a car and not a real house? (MA)

Is the car used to transport the tent? If so, what does the mobile nature of their home show about the economic state of these people? (MS)

Where are they going?(CW)

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Migrant
agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two.
Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California,
because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their
tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most
of them were destitute

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Migrant
agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two.
Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California,
because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their
tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most
of them were destitute

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Is she living in a tent?(CR)

The family looks like they have not showered T.E

Where is their father? (Q.C)

Are there many other families like this during this time? (DB)

How do the clothes of this family show their struggles? (A. L.)

Is the baby healthy? (CO)

How long or how long do these people plan to live in this tent? (LS)

What is she looking at or thinking about?(CW)

Does she have food to feed her children?(DB)

What happened to the father? (S

How old is she and how old are her children? (aga)

Why is this mother so desperate and why can't she make conditions better for herself and her family? FM and TE

Would it me common in this time and pace to have so many kids? FM and TE

Was it hard to be a parent at this time? (CO, LS)

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Billboard
on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by
National Association of Manufacturers

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Billboard
on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by
National Association of Manufacturers

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How many people were actually able to live like the family in the billboard? (CR)

What is ironic about the message of this board?

Is this an accurate representation of America at that time?(CR)

Was this sign created during a time of poverty? Why do you think this was the "American way?" (HJD)

Why was this sign made during this time period? (MA)

How many people actually live this way?(RA)

WHen was this sign made? Why was it made? T.E

What does this say about the countries economic standing prior o the Great Depression? (J.L.)

What do you think this is advertising ? (SH)

Why is this billboard praising the "American Way" at a time like this? (MC)

Why is the standard family white and wealthy, with only two kids? (MC)

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Migrant
agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two.
Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

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Migrant
agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two.
Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

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Is this a home? What does the barren land tell us about their situation? (Z.L)

What is shown about these people through the tattered state of the tent? Why are the clothes packed into suitcases? (MS)

Is this a permanent home for them or are they traveling?(DB)

Are the kids smiling? Do they understand the severity of the situation they are in? (AHA)

These people look in need of food and water. Do they live like this all the time? T.E

The people also look like they need to shower. Why don't they shower or take a bath? do they have the resourses to do so? T.E

How does the posture of these people, specifically the person in the rocking chair, show the history behind them? (A. L.)

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Has this style of living been accepted as the norm in America by this time? (J.L. and R. A. P.)

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The
incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County,
California

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The
incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County,
California

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How does this image represent people in America at that time? (CR)

Were all people at this time able to wash their clothes?(CO)

Why are there clothes in this picture? W.C

Why are all the clothes white (light colored)? (M.C)

Did people have to be privilledged in order to wash their clothes? (MC)

Why are the cloths mostly one piece? Why are they all white? T.E

Do they have to share water and soap to be able to wash their clothes? (QC)

How do the cloths people where show their economic status? (LS,CO)

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Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age
thirty-two. Nipomo, California

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Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age
thirty-two. Nipomo, California

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Why are they depressed?(CR)

What is she looking at? (M.C.)

Why is there no father figure present? Did he abandon his family? (MC)

Why are the children hiding

What is this woman thinking about?

What are the kids frightened of? (R.A.P)

Why are the children's faces buried in their mother's shoulder? W.C

WHy are the children shielding their eyes? T.E

Why is the mother scared? (MA)

Is this an accurate representation of the way people felt during this time period? (MA

Where is the father?(aga)

What can we tell about the body language of the two boys and mother? (QC)

Which of the elements and principles of art are most strongly represented here? (QC)

What emotion is this mother's face showing? WC

How has the stress of raising seven children affected the mother physically? (RA)