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[ New Search ] In Roseville Switch Yard Location : Roseville, CA Date : Apr 13, 1940 Agency : NYA Credits : Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Owner : NARA (SPB) Medium : B&W Photo Control Number : RG 119-CAL-15-18 Enlarged Image Description : Five o'clock in the morning in Roseville switch yards for freight going over the Sierra. A family of Mexican agricultural workers heading for Utah to top sugar beets. The mother is 20, the father 21, the child 3, the other man is the brother of the father. They had slept out overnight in the grass without bedclothing; the child's overalls are wet with dew and he wears galoshes. A veteran migrant, he has been traveling by freight ever since he was four months old. His family follow a circuit of beets and cotton through Utah, Texas and California. Listed Under: [Photo Series][NYA Photoessays of Rondal Partridge][On the Freights]