c.c. cotton davis. cotton davis, extroverted, full of gags and witty sayings." cotton davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. he became infamous for them in the time they were in the camp. 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 stories that have been a superb job of recording. that is why the library of congress has collected these materials. we have a number of photographs in our dust bowl migration archives. most of the photographs were taken by a photographer in ventura. almost all of the photographs are officially farm security administration photographs of life in the migrant camps of california. a few examples that are quite telling include this sign from the u.s. department of agriculture farm security administration identifying the farmworkers community that exists that these children are posing in front of. charles todd and robert sonkin collected songs and stories, and this photograph s