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[ New Search ] Digging Up 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-9-79 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..."We got mighty tired of roaming around."...The girl never got a chance to finish high school and will be nineteen "come August 11."... This year there was a tremendous oversupply of labor in potatoes. Men and women hunting for work waited at the ends of the rows for a picker to drop out. Listed Under: [Photo Series][NYA Photoessays of Rondal Partridge][Migrant Youth in Potato Field]