The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection
The collection consists of approximately 18 hours of audio recordings (436
titles on 122 recording discs), 28 graphic images (prints and negatives),
and 1.5 linear feet of print materials including administrative
correspondence, field notes, recording logs, song text transcriptions,
dust jackets from the recording discs with handwritten notes, news
clippings, publications, and ephemera. The online presentation provides
access to 371 audio titles, 23 graphic images, a sampling of the dust
jackets, and all the print material in the collection. Covering a period
between 1940 and 1941, this collection documents the lives of Dust Bowl
migrants living in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps in California.
Voices from the Dust Bowl