Spiro,Oklahoma,OK,Sequoyah County,June 1939,Farm Security Administration,FSA,4

Title: Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahoma. The man and his wife had farmed in this vicinity for many years. However, they had always been renters. They have found it increasingly difficult to find land and house for rent. They had moved to the river bottom where they were camping out while working in the nearby fields. The mosquitoes were bad. They had to move to higher ground by the roadside. The entire family--mother, father and six children--had malaria. When the man was asked if there was much malaria among the people, he replied, 'Yes, they have always started chillin' and they'll keep achillin' till frost, them that don't die.' The father and two children were chopping cotton for a dollar a day. The father said 'that as soon as they got a few dollars ahead it came a rain and they spent their money before it was dry enough to work again.' They had a car and were going on to California as soon as they had enough money. The woman's sister is living in Bakersfield, California, and they want to get out there. 'They ain't doing much, but he's making a living and I ain't making it here.'
Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1939 June.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 0524 (Location of corresponding print).
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 23, frame 515.
Subjects:
United States--Oklahoma--Sequoyah County--Spiro.
Day laborers, migrants--Sequoyah County--Oklahoma
Safety film negatives.
Bookmark /fsa2000014876/PP/
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