Box 4
Container
Contains 110 Collections and/or Records:
A W.P.A. instructor teaching women to sew, 1930s
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_376
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Farm Security Administration photograph.
Sick child in bed in a dilapidated trailer home, 1939
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_377
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Farm Security Administration photograph. Negatives.
Surplus cotton for mattress making, removed from the bale, being beaten with small sticks to condition it before being carded, 1941
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_378
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Farm Security Administration Visalia Farm Workers Camp, Visalia, California.
Dust storm in Colorado. J. H. Ward, undated
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_379
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Resettlement Administration photograph. Negative.
Children using a water pump, the only water source for the cotton pickers in the migratory workers camp, 1936
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_380
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Lange, Farm Security Administration photograph.
Shed, windmill and two cows whose ribs show. Desolate, sand swept high plains in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Boise City, Oklahoma, 1938
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_381
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Lange, Farm Security Administration photograph.
Migratory workers housing renting for $10.00 a month, 1930s
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_382
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Farm Security Administration photograph.
Shacks for which Filipino field workers pay about $16.00 a month, 1930s
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_383
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Farm Security Administration photograph.
An outhouse which illustrates sanitary conditions at migrant workers camps, 1930s
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_384
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Farm Security Administration photograph.
A wooden trailer home for four, and two tents, undated
Item — Box: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_4_0000_385
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The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...