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Image: Roseville, Placer County, California. On the Freights. Five o'clock in the morning in Roseville switch yards for... - NARA - 532082

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Description: Scope and content: Roseville, Placer County, California. On the Freights. Five o'clock in the morning in Roseville switch yards for freight going over the Sierra. A family of Mexican agricultural workers heading for Utah to top sugar beets. The mother is twenty, the father twenty-one, the child three, and the other man is the brother of the father. They had slept out overnight in the grass without bedclothing; the child's overalls are wet with dew and he wears galoshes. A veteran migrant, he has been traveling by freight ever since he was four months old. His family follow a circuit of beets and cotton through Utah, Texas, and California
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