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| Keywords: Edison Kern County, California. Age 70, she came from near Greely, Nebraska, with sister age 65 neph . . . - NARA - 521789.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Edison Kern County California Age 70 she came from near Greely Nebraska with sister age 65 nephew age 30 and brother age 68 She says My father was a pioneer in Nebraska He went there in '79 He was born in Ireland I remember when we lived in a dugout in Nebraska but he left us three good farms He had a timber claim a homestead and he bought one farm My father's been dead for 20 years and we lost everything including our minds nearly trying to keep what he left us We paid taxes for nearly 50 years there but we only saved out enough to build us this trailer home We came to California in June 1938 We just started out We had good land back there - wheat corn orchard chickens cows cream eggs Independent we had everything 'til the drought came There's not many of the old settlers left It's discouraging I tell you to go out once or twice a week and come home with a dollar Yesterday we went 37 miles to pick peas and worked 5 hours We've got relatives back East and they just can't understand how these things are General notes 521789 Local identifier 83-G-41545 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-41545 Other versions <gallery> File Edison_Kern_County _California _Age_70 _she_came_from_near_Greely _Nebraska _with_sister_age_65_neph_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521789 tif tif File Edison_Kern_County _California _Age_70 _she_came_from_near_Greely _Nebraska _with_sister_age_65_neph_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521789 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange History of Kern County California | ||||
