Public Health Nurse Interviews Young Mother in 1939 Camp

A public health nurse interviews a young mother in a migrant labor camp near Calipatria, California, in February 1939. The seventeen-year-old mother awaits her first child while her twenty-three-year-old husband works in nearby pea fields. This image illustrates the living conditions of migrant families and the significance of maternal health in agricultural communities.

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