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Nurse, Gertrude Mead, is in her white apron waiting for the arrival of the children at the Linnell Camp Clinic.

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Children are lined up at the Linnell Camp medical clinic. *One of the main purposes of the Farm Security Adminstration was the health of migrant families. With a medical clinic in camp, children could stay well and not spread disease in the…

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Another view of the children lined up at Linnell medical clinic for their immunization.

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The Community Center Building is where camp meeting are held.

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The Community Center at Linnell Camp also is the site for church services, club meetings, dances, etc.

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The community center is located at the hexagon entrance of Linnell Camp. Each camp was to be a self-contained community, with its own water and sewer system, streets laid out, a school, a clinic, utilities building with showers, laundry and toilets,…

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The Linnell Camp entrance at Road 156. A car and a trailer with all its belongings has just arrived at the Tulare Farm Labor Supply Center (the official name for Linnell Camp).

The migrant families had to check in at the office to see if they…

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Pictured here are the "Garden Homes" on the northwest corner of Linnell Camp. Each cottage had space for a garden in this section of Linnell Camp.

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Linnell Camp has 48 three-room cottages called "Garden Homes"on the north side of the camp along Avenue 288.

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More pictures of the garden home with two children and a man by a ladder.
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