Outside the FSA grant office during pea harvest, Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange. # 2899937

Outside the FSA grant office during pea harvest, Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938 for the first time the labor surplus has grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. [Provisions include box of tinned evaporated milk, sacks of flour].