1

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)

2

PDF-1

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Company houses built by Seabrook for migrant workers

Date Created1942-06

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...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

3

PDF-1

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)

4

PDF-1

TitleProclamation of national mourning

Date Created1865

DescriptionJames Hood, Mayor of Bridgeton, proclaims April 19, 1865, as a day of mourning for Bridgeton citizens, in response to the assasination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes...

5

PDF-1

TitleMigrant deaths, 1962-1965

Date Created1962-1965

DescriptionThis memorandum from Dick Hogarty of the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, lists in chronological order the deaths of various migrant workers throughout New Jersey from 1962 to 1965. The...