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Nursery School Children on the Playground at Robstown Camp in Texas, January 1942

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Nursery School Children on the Playground at Robstown Camp in Texas, January 1942
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Rothstein, Arthur, "Nursery school children in playground. Robstown camp, Texas," January 1942

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This photo shows nursery school children posing on a slide at their school in Robstown Camp. They lived in the migrant labor camp with their families in Texas.

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Citation Information 

Rothstein, Arthur, "Nursery school children in playground. Robstown camp, Texas," January 1942. Courtesy of Library of Congress