Photoessays Biography Credits	Digging Up Potatoes
	Location: Kern Co., CA Date: Apr 9, 1940 Agency: NYA Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Source: NARA (SPB) Accession Number: 119-CAL-9-79 Enlarged Image
	2 of 5 Kern County, California, April 9, 1940, 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 years 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.