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Primary

Lange, D., photographer. (1936) Nursery. Kern migrant camp, California. Kern County United States  California, 1936. Nov. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017763240/. 

Lange, D., photographer. (1937) Children of migratory Mexican field workers. The older one helps tie carrots in the field. Coachella Valley, California. United States Riverside County Coachella Valley California, 1937. Feb. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017769899/. 

Lange, D., photographer. (1939) Farm Security Administration FSA migrant camp. Westley, California. This migrant mother lives in a contractor’s camp because of contractor’s control of jobs. She comes to the Farm Security Administration camp with sick baby and agricultural workers medical association card FSA. California Westley United States Stanislaus County, 1939. Apr. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017771889/. 

Lange, D., photographer. (1939) Tulare County. Farm Security Administration FSA camp for migrant agricultural workers. Children who attend nursery school. California. Farmersville camp. Farmersville United States California Tulare County, 1939. May. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017771994/.

Lee, R., photographer. (1940) Children of migratory agricultural workers playing games, at the WPA Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona. Agua Fria Arizona Maricopa County, 1940. May. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017786177/.

Lee, R., photographer. (1942) Woodville, California. FSA Farm Security Administration farm workers’ community. Nursery children playing. California United States Woodville Tulare County, 1942. Feb. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017817344/.

Lee, R., photographer. (1942) Children learn of the need for well-balanced diet at the school at the FSA Farm Security Administration farm workers’ community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. United States Pinal County Arizona Eleven Mile Corner, 1942. Feb. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017817561/. 

Not Identified & Hemmig, R. (1941) Group of children posing under sign that reads “U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community”. El Rio California, 1941. El Rio, California. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/toddbib000400/.

Summers, J. (Host). (2024 October 23). American Migrant. [Audio podcast episode]. In Radio Diaries. https://www.radiodiaries.org/american-migrant/

Taylor, P. S. (1943). An American-Mexican Frontier : Nueces county, Texas. The University of North Carolina Press.https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4392602&seq=227

Todd, C. L., Sonkin, R. & Spurlock, E. (1940). Nine Little Devils. Arvin FSA Camp. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/toddbib000009/.

Secondary

Baldwin, S. (1968). Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of The Farm Security Administration. The University of North Carolina Press. 

Cannon, B. Q. (1996). “Keep on A-Goin”: Life and Social Interaction in a New Deal Farm Labor Camp. Agricultural History, 70(1), 1–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3744356 

Grey, M. R. (1999). New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration. The John Hopkins University Press. 

Long, J., & Siu H. E. (2016). Refugees From Dust And Shrinking Land: Tracking The Dust Bowl Migrants. National Bureau Of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22108/w22108.pdf 

Martínez-Matsuda, V. (2009). “Making the Modern Migrant: Work, Community, and Struggle in the Federal Migratory Labor Camp Program, 1935-1947.” [Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin]. ProQuest & UMI Dissertations Publishing. https://www.proquest.com/docview/905164306?%20Theses&fromopenview=true&pq-origsite=gscholar&sourcetype=Dissertations%20

Martínez-Matsuda, V. (2020). Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program. University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11vc94n

Robbins, C. R., & Robbins, M. W. (2015). Spatial Relations in Oral History: The Robstown Migrant Labor Camp beyond the Federal Period. The Oral History Review, 42(2), 255–276. https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohv038