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A photograph of Babb with a migrant farmer and a girl after a win for the migrant farmers over a walnut strike in 1938.

A photograph of Babb and a hispanic migrant farmer after a win involving a walnut strike in 1938.

The daughter of immigrants from Mexico, Silvia Gonzalez S. (Scherer) was born in San Fernando, CA, and grew up in the barrio of Pacoima, near Los Angeles. Her plays include Boxcar, the 1989 winner at the Multicultural Playwright's Festival with the…

Tom Collins on left, and Sanora Babb on right, hanging up material on a line in a migrant camp in either 1938 or 1939 while working for the Farm Security Administration.

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"Book Tom Collins + Sanora Babb Migrants Camp…

Photography taken in 1938, taken by Dorothy Babb, showing California farmers and Sanora Babb (center). Set in the California fields, back of the photograph details how the farmers had to leave their farms in Oklahoma. How kind her supervisor Tom…