LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 28343
1941
California
Collection: Library

Woody Guthrie and Fred Ross Jr. at Shafter Camp near Bakersfield, California

Designed to house farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl, the Shafter Camp was set up by the federal government's New Deal agricultural agency the Farm Security Administration.

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

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