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   Boy Going Home

Location: Bakersfield, CA
Date: Apr 11, 1940
Agency: NYA
Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer)
Source: NARA (SPB)
Accession Number: 119-CAL-15-1

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Bakersfield, Calif., April 11, 1940, One of two migrant boys in California returning to their families in Chickasha, 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."