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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. 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)

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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)

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TitleAn act to incorporate a company to erect a rail-road from the river Delaware, near Trenton, to the river Raritan, at or near New-Brunswick.

Date Issued1815

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