print email comment close Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/ Description: A "collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera. ... [Includes] 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 Dust Bowl refugees. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: California -- History Depressions -- 1929 Migrant agricultural laborers -- California Sound recordings LII Database Information: Record 1126 created by Carole Leita on 06/19/1999 Last modification on 01/02/2009 Published: 06/19/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1126