Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby
Content: Title and date from. Content: Caption continues: Father said "They call me a road hog and a bum; but if I am, how did that boy get into the eighth grade." American River camp, near Sacramento, California. Version identification: FSA Collection contains two copies of this photograph. Copy 2 cropped. TMS ID: 22837 TMS Object Number: 009925-E Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f88c5ca0-82d1-0136-874d-5d80bf6d9320
- Date
- 1936-11
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 6,435 × 6,320 pixels
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