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[ New Search ] Sitting on a Sack of Potatoes Location : CA Date : Apr 9, 1940 Agency : NYA Credits : Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Owner : NARA (SPB) Medium : B&W Photo Control Number : RG 119-CAL-9-78 Enlarged Image Description : This girl came from the OK state three years ago and lives with father in a rural slum in Wasco, Kern County, where they "settled." "We got mighty tired of roaming around." Because they have settled down, their jobs in peas, potatoes and cotton are obtained less by the hit-and-miss method and more by knowing local contractors and independent farmers. They are now considered "locals" in the community in which they live. The girl never had a chance to finish high school and will be nineteen "come August 11." While the girl and her father are away from Wasco on jobs, they live in the trailer in which they came from Oakland. Listed Under: [Photo Series][NYA Photoessays of Rondal Partridge][Migrant Youth in Potato Field]