Roseville, Placer County, California. On the Freights. Five o'clock in the morning in Roseville switch yards for freight going over the Sierra
4/19/1940
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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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532082Full Citation: Roseville, Placer County, California. On the Freights. Five o'clock in the morning in Roseville switch yards for freight going over the Sierra; 4/19/1940; Records of the National Youth Administration, Record Group 119. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/roseville-placer-county-california-on-the-freights-five-oclock-in-the-morning-in-roseville-switch-yards-for-freight-going-over-the-sierra, April 28, 2024]