1938 Rural Rehabilitation Home in Tulare County California

In Tulare County, California, a family establishes their home on twenty acres of unimproved land in November 1938. They make a modest first payment of fifty dollars from their relief budget. With a Farm Security Administration loan of seven hundred dollars, they purchase livestock and equipment. The one-room shack houses seven cows and three sows, with ten acres of improved pasture. The husband, age twenty-six, works part-time while the twenty-two-year-old wife cares for their three children. Their monthly income from cream sales reaches about thirty dollars, reflecting the economic challenges of the Great Depression.

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