Title

California State Employment Service office, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

California State Employment Service office. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. This office is 500 yards from potato pickers camp. This office made 2,452 individual placements to growers in five weeks (season of 1938). [Sign: 'Tulelake Free Employment Service - Workers Apply Here'].

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_154

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (1,3Mb) / 16,5in x 12,7in / 4960 x 3800 (300dpi)

Keywords

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