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Child Labor - Brown-mcdowel

A black and white photo of people in a store. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A young truant newsie, during school hours. Location: Nashville, Tennessee

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware

A black and white photo of two men, possibly related to: Street scene, Marysville, Ohio

Theatre on Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

Meat rationing preview. Harold Rowe, Office of Price Administration (OPA) food rationing chief, sells meat to girl reporter at shopping preview of new program

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Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"

Famous old bar in Tombstone, Arizona

Famous old bar in Tombstone, Arizona

Famous old bar in Tombstone, Arizona

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"

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Summary

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Temp. note: usf34batch2

Film copy on SIS roll 27, frame 1540.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Dorothea Lange contracted polio as a young girl. She learned professional photography skills while working in New York in her early 20s, and then landed in San Francisco where she ran a portrait business catering to the city's wealthy elite. Her second husband, Paul Taylor, helped her to get out into the fields with the destitute pickers, who she'd treat like portrait subjects with empathy and identification with her subjects. When the Depression hit, she captured crowded breadlines. In the late 1930s Dorothea Lange had been hired by the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration - to photograph Dust Bowl refugees escaped into California from the Midwest and her images went far beyond bureaucratic reportage. A skilled portraitist, Lange might not have been able to change government policies, but her images for the FSA were picked up by newspapers across the country. John Steinbeck used them for inspiration in his 1939 Dust Bowl tale "The Grapes of Wrath."

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Date

01/01/1938
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in collections

Dorothea Lange, FSA, HD

Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.
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arizona
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Lot 656, Cochise County, Dorothea Lange

Main street of Nyssa, Oregon, on Saturday afternoon

Theeweek in Amsterdam (Ralley), Noord Holland

Opening of union cafe. Oakland, California. Photograph made day after 1936 Presidential election

Robert Smirke - Tombstone - B1977.14.781 - Yale Center for British Art

Center market - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Farmers' wives about to enter general store at Blankenship, Martin County, Indiana

Eugène Atget, 15, rue Maître-Albert, 1912

Minnesota map. Atlas of Plymouth County, Iowa : containing maps of townships of the county, maps of state, United States and world : farmers directory.

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Gezicht op een straat met marktkramen

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Mormon farmers having refreshments of watermelon and fruit punch after cooperative FSA meeting. Box Elder County, Utah

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arizona cochise county tombstone small towns nitrate negatives lot 656 dorothea lange photo crystal palace saloon original bar ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress vendors farmers agriculture