LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 28342
1941
California
Occupation: Entertainment and sports
Collection: Library

Woody Guthrie gets and introduction to the Shafter Farm Security Adminstration Camp.

Weatherwax drove with her husband, the writer John Weatherwax, and Woody Guthrie to visit the Shafter farm camps in 1941. When they arrived Guthrie went off to sing and Seema set up her camera.

Image from Seema Aissen Weatherwax Photographs, Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections.

View the exhibit Seema Weatherwax for related images.

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