Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection Span: 1940-1941 Bulk: 1940-1941 English web presentation This online presentation documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. The collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips undertaken by Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin. They traveled to Shafter, Thornton, Visalia, Westley, and Yuba City, where they documented dance tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings, camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal experience narratives of the Dust Bowl refugees who inhabited the camps. sound recordings - 371 titles, photographs - 23 , print materials - 1.5 linear feet (administrative correspondence, field notes, recording logs, song text transcriptions, dust jackets from the recording discs with handwritten notes, news clippings, publications, and ephemera) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Voices from the Dust Bowl Documentation of the everyday life of residents of migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941 through sound recordings, photographs, and other materials. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tscpyrt.html Folk Music Todd, Charles L. Sonkin, Robert Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb American Folklife Center, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html IHAS 090604 loc.natlib.scdb.200033728