charles todd and robert sonkin collected songs and stories, and this photograph showing them in front of a microphone, getting ready to sing their songs for the phonograph placed in front of them is, again, both an iconic photograph, and also one that is very, very specific to these two people and their experience in the camp. again, mrs. pipkin holding a baby, sitting outside in the bright sun. a wonderful picture, speaking to the times. her face looks much older than i am sure she was. the photograph details the daily life in the cap and identifies many of these people, really helping to highlight family life -- what individual experiences were like. one of the collections, the sub-collection is a collection of camp newsletters. these are copies of original materials that were handed out to everyone in the speech of the camps, where they were written. the unique thing about them, they were written by the migrant laborers themselves about life in the camp. i will review a few desserts from one of the news latest -- exits -- exerts dated october 28, 1939. the title of the newsletter i

charles todd and robert sonkin collected songs and stories, and this photograph showing them in front of a microphone, getting ready to sing their songs for the phonograph placed in front of them is, again, both an iconic photograph, and also one that is very, very specific to these two people and their experience in the camp. again, mrs. pipkin holding a baby, sitting outside in the bright sun. a wonderful picture that speaks to the times. her face looks much older than i am sure she was. photograph in relation to the note that details the daily life in the camp and identifies many of these people, really helping to highlight family life -- what individual experiences were like. one of the collections, the sub-collection is a collection of camp newsletters. these are copies of original materials that were handed out to everyone in the speech of the camps, where they were written. the unique thing about them, they were written by the migrant laborers themselves about life in the camp. i will review a few excerpts from one of the newsletters at the indio mining labor camp dated october

i am going to share with you some announced the notes that were written by charles todd and robert sonkin when they arrive in each of the camps. they began recording their experiences in type-written form. 1940.s an example from "we arrived at the farmworkers community at 3:00 p.m. the clerk on duty in the office directed us to the camp store to find mr. do we rogers, assistant camp manager. neattore is a new, very building. according to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. -- direction.: they go on to the people they dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. he took us to the library where we set up our machine. cotton davis, extroverted, full witty sayings." khan davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. toone that comes now research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. it is individual stories that have been a superb job of recording

charles todd and robert sonkin collected songs and stories, and this photograph showing them in will front of a microphone, getting ready to sing their songs for the phonograph placed in front of them is, again, both an iconic photograph, and also one that is very, very specific to these two people and their experience in the camp. again, mrs. pipkin holding a baby, sitting outside in the bright sun. a wonderful picture, speaking to the times. her face looks much older than i am sure she was. the photograph details the daily life in the camps and identifies many of these people, really helping to highlight family life -- what individual experiences were like. one of the collections, the sub-collection is a collection of camp newsletters. these are copies of original materials that were handed out to everyone in the speech of the each of the camps, where they were written. the unique thing about them, they were written by the migrant laborers themselves about life in the camp. i will review a few desserts >> the title is, the covered wagon. >> i am glad to have this opportunity to wor

charles todd and robert sonkin collected songs and stories, and this photograph showing them in frontf a microphone, getting ready to sing their songs for the phonograph placed in front of them is, again, both an iconic photograph, and also one that is very, very specific to these two people and their experience in the camp. again, mrs. pipkin holding a baby, sitting outside in the bright sun. a wonderful picture, speaking to the times. her face looks much older than i am sure she was. the photograph details the daily life in the cap and identifies many of these people, really helping to highlight family life -- what individual experiences were like. one of the collections, the sub-collection is a collection of camp newsletters. these are copies of original materials that were handed out to everyone in the speech of the camps, where they were written. the unique thing about them, they were written by the migrant laborers themselves about life in the camp. i will review a few desserts from one of the news latest -- exits -- exerts dated october 28, 1939. the title of the newsletter is

i am going to share with you some announced the notes that were written by charles todd and robert sonkin when they arrive in each of the camps. they began recording their experiences in type-written form. this is an example from 1940. "we arrived at the farmworkers community at 3:00 p.m. the clerk on duty in the office directed us to the camp store to find mr. do we rogers, assistant camp manager. the store is a new, very neat building. according to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. they indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. -- direction.: they go on to the people they meet -- "dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. he took us to the library where we set up our machine. cotton davis, extroverted, full of gags and witty sayings." khan davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. anyone that comes now to research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. it is individual stori