Keywords: Arvin, Kern County, California. One of a community of shacks in the subdivided orchard rented to agr . . . - NARA - 521659.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Arvin Kern County California One of a community of shacks in the subdivided orchard rented to agricultural workers on and off relief Ex-tenant farmer from Oklahoma speaks I was raised in a time when every man hepped himself and the Lord hepped him Now I haven't made 5 since November 16 1939 I've raised and matched 6 children back there in Osage County I had a right smart place but the land grabbers got me It's like a man buying a mule they choose only the best of them Worlds of them are left out When I went to farming in 1914 some of them land grabbers was farming with a plow in those days like I was But a small man can't take the dry weather the bugs and all the rest that comes and make it I stayed together as long as I could A human being is a funny thing when he knows he's gyped He wants to take a change somewhere else I reckon the AAA gyped me out of my share and put me on the road General notes 521659 Local identifier 83-G-41415 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Lange Dorothea 1895-1965 Photographer 1372774 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1940-04-11 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-41415 Other versions <gallery> File Arvin _Kern_County _California _One_of_a_community_of_shacks_in_the_subdivided_orchard_rented_to_agr_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521659 tif tif File Arvin _Kern_County _California _One_of_a_community_of_shacks_in_the_subdivided_orchard_rented_to_agr_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521659 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Arvin California |