# Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000463

Historically significant documentation of internal migration within the U.S., showing the Okies, among other migrant communities, people who had fled dust bowl conditions in Oklahoma. In this reel that group and migrants from cities and from Mexico and elsewhere arrive in California's Central Valley in the 1930s. With documentation of U.S. federal New Deal infrastructure including the Farm Security Administration responding to the conditions generated by the mass migration and the Shafter's Farm Worker's Camp. Documents the development of schools, health clinics, labor camps, sanitation infrastructure, and housing security projects. Includes health clinic interiors and women being educated about reproductive health. Black and white sequences scanned separately in addition to this reel: 204916_Smith_Collection_000463_BW The content of this film is in multiple files due to scanning issue.

- Kind: Home movie
- By: Charles Edward Smith
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/204916_Smith_Collection_000463)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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