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Riding the Rails, 1940

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From the photographer's notes:

"On the freights. He said he quit high school after two years, hung around home for a couple of years and then got work as general kitchen help in a hotel.

He had just been fired from a job of this kind in Los Angeles where he had 'blown off' and 'told the cook off.'

He carried a clean white shirt and was prepared to look for work when his money was completely gone.

'I don't know where I'll go. I didn't go home -I'm on the bum. These agency jobs; you gotta buy them and I ain't got the dough.'

He talked about going to Reading, to Eugene and to Seattle. He had $1.80."

Yuba County, California, April 13, 1940.

Rondal Partridge, photographer.

Within two years, this young man's unemployment will most likely be ended by America's entrance into World War II and his induction into the military.

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