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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)
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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. 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)
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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)
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TitlePrivate First Class Kazuto Taniguchi after induction to U.S. Army.
Date Created1943
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.
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TitleHelen Cubberly
Date Created1940-1949
DescriptionPhotograph of Mrs. Helen B. Cubberly.
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TitleTaniguchi family portrait taken at Poston Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona.
Date Created1943
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,...
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TitleTaniguchi family in Poston, Arizona.
Date Created1940-1949
DescriptionThis is a picture of the Taniguchi family at the relocation camp in Poston, Arizona. The family occupied Block 220, Apartments 4A and B.
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TitleYear Around Work for Men and Women
Date Created1941-1945
DescriptionWritten in both Japanese and English, this poster advertises the more permanent status of positions at Seabrook Farms, which, due to the continual processing of warehoused frozen vegetable, was not...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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Title500 Satisfied Issei and Nisei Already Employed
Date Created1943
DescriptionRelocation and supervised work was implemented gradually by the WRA, beginning in January 1943. This poster touts Seabrook Farms' success in attracting and retaining released internees, to convince...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)