April 1936 Arvin [Weekly Reports, Thomas Collins, camp manager]

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April 1936 Arvin [Weekly Reports, Thomas Collins, camp manager]

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Records of the Farmers Home Administration, Coded Administrative Camp Files.

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National Archives at San Francisco

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SNAC Resource ID: 11614040

National Archives at San Francisco

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Collins, Tom, 1897-

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Tom Collins is particularly noted for his time as the Federal Government Camp Manager of the Arvin/ Weedpatch camp in California from 1935-1937 which housed dust bowl agricultural migrants during the great depression. His association with and aid in background research for author John Steinbeck significantly influenced the novel The Grapes of Wrath and led to him being one of the two indidividuals the book was dedicated to. Born out of wedlock, raised in a Catholic orphanage, and drawn at on...