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The Long Road Ahead: Migrant Workers in 1930s Southern California

Follow the journey of migrant workers in Southern California during the Great Depression as they search for jobs farm to farm, captured through compelling black-and-white photographs from the Farm Security Administration. Witness the struggles and realities faced in a time of farm mechanization and economic hardship.

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The Long Road Ahead: Migrant Workers in 1930s Southern California

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  1. Long road ahead: Migrant workers walk from farm to farm looking for jobs in Southern California in 1937 With their paltry possessions stuffed in one bag, a couple of migrant workers wearily trudge along a road in California looking for another day's wages in the fields. The image is typical of life in the country during the Great Depression in the 1930s. It is just one of many black-and-white photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection.

  2. Barren lands: The increase in farm mechanization forced thousands of tenants from their homes in areas such as Childress County, Texas, in 1938

  3. Back-breaking work: A group of Filipino labourers cut lettuce at a farm in Salinas, California, in 1935

  4. A peek inside a typical home - devoid of luxuries - in the 1930s

  5. A farmer and his two sons in a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 

  6. A farmer and his two sons in a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 

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