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Florida Photograph Gallery
from
America from the Great Depression to World War II, ca. 1935-1945

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Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers, a slack season; Belle Glade, Fla.	Canning plant employees grading beans, Dania, Fla.	Interior of a vegetable canning plant employing migratory workers near Dania, Florida.	Migrant laborer's family near Canal Point packinghouse, Florida.
Harvesting sugarcane, United States Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, Florida	"Jungle George," veteran fruit tramp at work in the packing house of Deerfield, Florida	Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida	Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida
Two children of a migratory fruit worker. Deerfield, Florida	Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida	Packing citrus fruit. Fort Pierce, Florida	Negroes under the National Youth Administration. Live Oak, Florida
Shacks of Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla.	Coconuts, Key West, Florida	Fisherman with crawfish, Key West, Florida	Picking oranges near Lakeland, Florida