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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)
5302
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)
5305
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)
5308
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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)
5309
TitleBridgeton migrant child
Date Created1943
DescriptionIn a 1943 photo from the Farm Security Administration, a small child is shown picking beans in a field. Many migrant workers traveled with their children, and reformers were concerned about working...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
5310
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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook
Date Created1944-05-06
DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)