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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionThe Farm Security Administration, which operated the camp at Big Oaks, constructed housing using materials not affected by wartime shortages.These structures typically housed guestworkers from the...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleLetter from Mary Dyckman to NJ Dept of Health, August 11, 1944

Date Created1944-08-11

DescriptionA letter from Mary Dyckman, President of the New Jersey Consumers League, to Dr. Julius Levy, a state health official, details sanitary conditions at the camps and notes racial discrimination in the...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Prefabricated houses, made from materials not affected by wartime shortages, at the camp

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionToilets installed over pits were among the many sanitary concerns that surrounded living conditions in the migrant labor camps. Visitors to the camp commented on the unbearable smell that emanated...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Wash day. In the near future the camp will have a completely modern laundry unit

Date Created1942-07

DescriptionSpecial laundry stations were created by the FSA at Big Oaks, and were served by pumped-in cold water.

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

5303

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Water is piped conveniently through the camp

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionPumps like the one featured here were the sole source of water at the FSA camp. Access to uncontaminated water posed another concern to reformers.

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

5304

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Picker and farmhand who lives in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionA worker stands outside of a barn in the Big Oaks FSA migrant labor camp in Bridgeton, NJ.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Single men live in the tents; families live in the houses

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionTent housing at the FSA migrant labor camp was occupied mainly by black workers from the U.S. South. These workers typically received the worst housing accommodations.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

5306

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. Migrant who lives alone in a barn on the farm where he works

Date Created1942-07

DescriptionMigrant workers like the man living in this barn often did not have adequate food storage or cooking facilities.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

5307

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TitleTyped transcript of letter to Helen Sater, U.S. Dept. of Labor, November 6, 1943

Date Created1943-11-06

DescriptionIn this letter, a white woman residing at Seabrook writes that although she and other workers had been promised free housing at Seabrook, the company was now attempting to charge them. The company's...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleBoys must be men

Date Created1943

DescriptionDuring World War Two, New Jersey amended its child labor and compulsory education laws in order to allow children to help make up for labor scarcities in agricultural production. In 1943, Seabrook...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)