U.S. National Archives photos from the 1940s
1,644 photos, in date order; 61–120 on this page. Photos taken by federal employees as part of their duties are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. Another view of church on Second Avenue. Preacher was a migrant.
1940-02-20
Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Saturday afternoon in a new cotton town. Shows the last market for clot.
1940-11
Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Crowds of cotton pickers on main street of Eloy late Saturday afternoon.
1940-11
Pinal County, Arizona. Many children work in the cotton fields around Eloy during school hours.
1940-11
Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities.
1940-03-19
McNews subdivision, 2 and 1/2 miles S.E. of Bakersfield, Kern County, California.House on left bu.
1940-04-10
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. At the cotton wagon. Weighing, dumping of the cotton, and resp.
1940-11
Arvin, Kern County, California. Newly finished schools, in district where shacktowns are rapidly dev.
1940-04-11
Ryer Island, Sacramento County, California. Asparagus fields and Filipino cutters in world's largest.
1940-04-05
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Children in a democracy. Bus carries migratory cotton pickers'.
1940-11
Airport tract, near Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. Church in shacktown community. It is use.
1940-05-10
Maricopa County, near Litchfield, Arizona. Vosberg Ranch, grower's camp for hop pickers.
1940-11
Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Truckload of cotton pickers, just pulled into town in the late afternoo.
1940-11
Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Letting down the sack from the scales, old migrant cotton pick.
1940-11
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Father and boy, ready to weigh their last sacks of cotton at t.
1940-11
Arvin, Kern County, California. Co-op store and gas station established December 1939 in the Arvin F.
1940-04-11
Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, California. Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from water t.
1940-04-09
Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. Child of parents who were migratory workers, now settling in Ol.
1940-03-20
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Children in cotton picker's camp. Negative 41820 shows camp in.
1940-11
One mile south of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Store and office at grower's camp for cotton pickers.
1940-11
Contra Costa County, California. Little boy from "back East" in front of tar paper house in the Davi.
1940-05-10
Sacramento, California. Squatter camp of agricultural labor migrants one-eighth mile outside city l.
1940-03-19
Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Mexican cotton pickers walk back to camp for lunch.
1940-11
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Water supply for migratory cotton pickers in FSA mobile camp j.
1940-11
Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona. Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman.
1940-11
Grayson, Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Old box cars on railroad right.
1940-04-09
Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Street scene on main street of Eloy, late Saturday afternoon. Cotton pi.
1940-11
Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Storage yard of cotton mill
1940-11
Pinal County, Arizona, outskirts of Eloy. Grower's camp for cotton pickers.
1940-11
Contra Costa County, California. Portion of the Davis camp seen from the roof of Mr. Davis' store.
1940-05-10
North of Sacramento, Sacramento County, California. Looking down from Natomas Levee, outside the cit.
1940-03-19
Airport tract, near Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. Another view of Conejo Street in the air.
1940-05-10
McFarland, Kern County, California. The McFarland shacktown lies to the left. This is the limit of p.
1940-04-10
On Arizona Highway 87, south of Chandler. Maricopa County, Arizona. Children in a democracy. A migra.
1940-11
South of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Grower's camp. Irrigation ditch at edge of camp becomes the re.
1940-11
Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Levelling new desert land for cotton and flax production. Preparat.
1940-11
Edison, Kern County, California. Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. On the day before th.
1940-04-11
Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average.
1940-04-11
Between Marysville and Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. Second store where new settlers trade an.
1940-03-21
Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona. Migrant African-American cotton picker and her baby.
1940-11
North of Sacramento, Sacramento, California. Looking down one of the five short streets leading from.
1940-03-19
Arvin, Kern County, California. One in a community of shacks in subdivided orchard rented to agricul.
1940-04-11
Arvin, Kern County, California. A newly-built house in one of four rapidly growing shacktown communi.
1940-04-11
McNews, 2 1/2 miles S.E. of Bakersfield, Kern County, California. McNews subdivision. On Raw Alkali.
1940-04-10
Near Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona. Farm buildings and surrounding fields of the Casa Grande coope.
1940-11
Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Picker on Cortaro Farms receives his ticket, punched by the we.
1940-11
Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Quarters for Negro cotton pickers on industrialized cotton far.
1940-11
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Mexican irrigator on duty preparing field for flax cultivation.
1940-11
On Highway 84, Pinal County, Arizona. Ranch advertisement during cotton harvest. Highway signs readi.
1940-11
Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Government camp for migratory pickers near Eloy, Arizona. This.
1940-11
Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Yaqui Indian cotton picker. Some are employed on this ranch th.
1940-11
Near Bakersfield, California. Applicants for surplus food stamp grants by Farm Security Administrati.
1940-11
Sacramento, California. From the roof of the power plant, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, approxim.
1940-03-15
Olivehurst, 2 miles south of Marysville, Yuba County, California. Squatter Community of 52 camps, a.
1940-02-20
Marysville, Yuba County, California. Marysville Auto Park, a private auto camp, just outside of town.
1940-02-20
Yuba City, Sutter County, California, Dykes Camp, another private auto camp. 18 units, no hot water,.
1940-02-21
Arvin, Kern County, California. Line up for state relief pay day. Shows exterior of building. This b.
1940-04-13
McNews, near Bakersfield, Kern County, California. In McNews subdivision. The West Family, four rela.
1940-04-11
Sunset District, East Bakersfield, Kern County, California. View of Negro shacktown settlement (Suns.
1940-04-10
Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. Note that the house is erected on the concrete foundation of th.
1940-03-21