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| Keywords: Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average. There are a score of private . . . - NARA - 521795.tif Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Bakersfield on Highway 466 Private auto camp better than the average There are a score of private auto camps strung one after the other along this highway in the eight miles between Bakersfield and Edison Ther were 30 agricultural labor families in this camp on and off relief Ten of these have lived here more than a year continuously They pay four dollars per month for space to put a tent or trailer Gas costs 1 50 per month and electricity an additional 1 50 per month They pay 10 per month for the rent of a tent with wooden floors wooden sides and furnished with gas and electricity There are 8 toilets 2 showers 1 washing machine Laundry tubs Practically all these families have lived in this before These camps also serve as housing for families with members continuously employed in the vicinity In this camp were two families with year-round employment General notes 521795 Local identifier 83-G-41551 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-41551 yes Other versions <gallery> File Bakersfield_on_Highway_466 _Private_auto_camp _better_than_the_average _There_are_a_score_of_private_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521795 tif tif File Bakersfield_on_Highway_466 _Private_auto_camp _better_than_the_average _There_are_a_score_of_private_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521795 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Campgrounds in the United States History of Bakersfield California Tents in the United States April 1940 in the United States 1940 in California Photographs taken on 1940-04-11 1940 in road transport 1940 in transport in the United States 1940 in agriculture U S Route 466 in California Auto camps Jalopy cars in the Great Depression NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs | ||||