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...
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)
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.
DescriptionFamily portrait taken with enlistee, Kazuto. Many eligible young men who received their induction notice volunteered for the Armed Forces. Kaz was a member of the famous 422 Regiment Combat Team,...
DescriptionThe first picture Private First Class Kazuto Taniguchi sent home after being inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943. He served his basic training in Camp Shelby, Mississippi.
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...
DescriptionPrefabricated houses - located in "Field no. 16" - were preferred residences at Seabrook, and in 1943 and 1944 housed white Southern migrant workers and their families. Though small and made of flimsy...