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|| About the Collection ||
This collection documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. It consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips undertaken by Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin. They traveled to Shafter, Thornton, Visalia, Westley, and Yuba City, where they documented dance tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings, camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal experience narratives of the Dust Bowl refugees who inhabited the camps.
|| Teacher Resources ||
- Activity: Songs for Our Times ("Casey Jones")
- Collection Connection
- Lesson Plan: America Dreams
- Lesson Plan: All History is Local: Students as Archivists
- Lesson Plan: Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression
- Lesson Plan: The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
- Lesson Plan: Our Changing Voices
- Lesson Plan: Visions in the Dust
- Lyrical Legacy: "Sunny California"
- Presentation: Women Pioneers
- Themed Resources: Great Depression
- Themed Resources: Immigration
|| Collection Details ||
General
- Span Dates
- 1940-1941
- Bulk Dates
- 1940-1941
- Major Language(s)
- English
- Repository
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Contents
- sound recordings - 371 titles, photographs - 23 , print materials - 1.5 linear feet (administrative correspondence, field notes, recording logs, song text transcriptions, dust jackets from the recording discs with handwritten notes, news clippings, publications, and ephemera)
- Processing History
- Unprocessed
Access/Copyright
- Access Permissions
- Online
- Copyright Info
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tscpyrt.html
- Preferred Citation
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress