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[ New Search ] Boy Going Home Location : Bakersfield, CA Date : Apr 11, 1940 Agency : NYA Credits : Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Owner : NARA (SPB) Medium : B&W Photo Control Number : RG 119-CAL-15-1 Enlarged Image Description : One of two migrant boys in California returning to their families in Chichsha, Oklahoma. Aged 20 and 21 years, they have been staying with relatives on relief in one FSA camp or another. They intend to return to California in September in time for cotton picking. Their stay in California had not been profitable. Said one, "I coulda done better if I'd stayed home. Heck, I was doin' better. But that there gov'ment camp is sure swell." Listed Under: [Photo Series][NYA Photoessays of Rondal Partridge][On the Freights]