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Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1936
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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Power station. This power station services the town from dark until 11:00 p.m. only. One day a week during daylight hours it is served for special purposes. Escalante, Utah

Power station. This power station services the town from dark until 11...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

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A black and white photo of a man cutting another man's hair, possibly related to: Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

A black and white photo of a man cutting another man's hair, possibly ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Homesteader, farmer, who has been working on the community farm since 1934. Hightstown, New Jersey

Homesteader, farmer, who has been working on the community farm since ...

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Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

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A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Mississippi

A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Missi...

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Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...

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Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Loading boulder on stone boat, while excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam

Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Loading bo...

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Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

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Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. Father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, "It's tough, but life's tough anyway you take it"

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their ho...

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Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will be ready for occupancy July, 1936

Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will...

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On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

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Road sign near Perry, Georgia. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Road sign near Perry, Georgia. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publ...

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String of five housecars. This group represents good conditions among pea pickers. California

String of five housecars. This group represents good conditions among ...

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Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...

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Background photgraph for Hightstown project. Garment factory on West Twenty-first Street, New York City. Mr. Jacob Solomon, one of the two hundred and fifty selected family heads for the Hightstown Project, is employed in this building. Compare with factory built by Resettlement Administration at Hightstown

Background photgraph for Hightstown project. Garment factory on West T...

Additional information on caption card: See RA 9191-E [i.e. LC-USF34-009191-E] for project background. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas... More

Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds of the West"

Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds o...

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Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, but almost all the houses stand empty. The people scattered

Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, ...

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Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the d...

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Child of sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi

Child of sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi

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Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

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Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. These people are not migrants, but live on the edge of the ranches and work in peas and melons

Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial...

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Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, California

Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, C...

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Filipino boy of a labor gang cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, California

Filipino boy of a labor gang cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, Cal...

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Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the Wray Plantation, Georgia

Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the W...

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Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field, five miles from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field, five mi...

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Hotel in Memphis, Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Hotel in Memphis, Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public dom...

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Well and old plantation smokehouse. Chesnee, South Carolina

Well and old plantation smokehouse. Chesnee, South Carolina

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A black and white photo of a man driving a tractor, Tractor and operator. Navarro, Texas

A black and white photo of a man driving a tractor, Tractor and operat...

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Abandoned shack of a tenant farmer near Roscoe, Texas

Abandoned shack of a tenant farmer near Roscoe, Texas

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Abandoned house in Carey, Texas. Mechanized cotton farming and displacement of tenant families is fast making Carey a ghost town

Abandoned house in Carey, Texas. Mechanized cotton farming and displac...

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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation. Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi

Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...

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Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

An old photo of a man standing in front of a truck, Migrant agricultural workers' home. California

An old photo of a man standing in front of a truck, Migrant agricultur...

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Housing for migratory cotton field laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona

Housing for migratory cotton field laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona

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Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

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Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photograph.

Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photograph.

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Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

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"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most...

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 availabl... More

Manteca, California. Farm Security Administration Tenant Purchase client's wife

Manteca, California. Farm Security Administration Tenant Purchase clie...

This image in a jacket marked "Killed." Title and other information from print in lot. Photo shows Mary (Greek name: Marigo) Dimotakis feeding the dog. Mary, an immigrant from Crete, was born Nov. 1889 in Cambo... More

Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween party at Shafter camp for migrants, California

Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween ...

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Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, which took place just before the election. Kern County, California

Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, w...

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In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read news of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. Most of San Francisco's Chinese are Cantonese

In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read ...

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Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds. Took three hours to pick, for which, on basis of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton, he will be paid thirty-eight cents

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts....

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Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to expel farm people by 1937, adding to the refugees to the west coast. There are many vacant cabins. Near England, Arkansas

Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to expel farm peop...

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, Cali...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars. Near Manteca, California

Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under T...

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Furrowing against the wind to check the drift of sand. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas

Furrowing against the wind to check the drift of sand. Dust Bowl, nort...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Hungry boy at the Halloween party for migrant workers. Shafter migrant camp, California

Hungry boy at the Halloween party for migrant workers. Shafter migrant...

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Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico

Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico

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Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. The machine was put into operation June 7, 1938. Has to date (Nov. 3, 1938) served on sixty harvesting jobs in wheat, barley, soy beans, and milo maize. Tulare County, California

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Ru...

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Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. This is the first family to be selected by Farm Security Administration for housing

Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These...

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 availabl... More

Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant agricultural worker on strike for wage increase in cotton. Bakersfield, California

Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant agricultur...

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Log rafts on the Williamette River between Salem and Independence, Oregon

Log rafts on the Williamette River between Salem and Independence, Ore...

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 availabl... More

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age twenty three, been on the road seven years. Married. "I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog." Washington, Yakima Valley

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned f...

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Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the ...

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On transportation outskirts of small Oregon town on the Columbia River. Arlington, Gilliam County, Oregon

On transportation outskirts of small Oregon town on the Columbia River...

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Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You never know what may happen." Yamhill farms. (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Yamhill County, Williamette Valley, Oregon

Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You ...

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 availabl... More

Oregon. Independence, Polk County. Hop farmer's sons, washing for noon meal on back porch. They supervise the migratory workers in the field and tend to the weighing of hops

Oregon. Independence, Polk County. Hop farmer's sons, washing for noon...

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Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

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Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new start on cut-over land. Priest River Penninsula, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 51

Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new...

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George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages twelve, sixteen, and eighteen, are needed at home to develop the farm and do not go to school. Malheur County, Oregon

George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages ...

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Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina

Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived h...

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Tobacco sharecropper and his children working on tobacco patch, "topping" and "worming."

Tobacco sharecropper and his children working on tobacco patch, "toppi...

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Eight year old daughter who helps about the tobacco barn and takes care of the baby. Granville County, North Carolina

Eight year old daughter who helps about the tobacco barn and takes car...

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Tobacco field in early morning where white sharecropper and wage laborer are priming tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

Tobacco field in early morning where white sharecropper and wage labor...

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Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration...

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 availabl... More

Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. Note everpresent Confederate monument in town center

Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. Note everpresent Confederate...

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 availabl... More

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

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Fifth Avenue at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Waiting for an uptown bus. New York City

Fifth Avenue at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Waiting for an uptown bus. ...

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Congregation leaving after services. Preacher in doorway. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Congregation leaving after services. Preacher in doorway. Dead Ox Flat...

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Family work clearing land by burning. Near Bonners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho. See general caption 49

Family work clearing land by burning. Near Bonners Ferry, Boundary Cou...

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Yakima Indian valley on the Columbia River, inhabited during salmon season. After the fishing is over they return to the Yakima Valley. Indian girl: "They don't want to live better. The government is trying to make them." Celilo, Wasco County, Oregon

Yakima Indian valley on the Columbia River, inhabited during salmon se...

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Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks before picking. Yakima Valley, Moxee Valley district, Washington

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks ...

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The Wardlow family in their dugout basement home on Sunday. The youngest boy copies out a recipe for his mother. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

The Wardlow family in their dugout basement home on Sunday. The younge...

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 availabl... More

Squatters camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 64

Squatters camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon. General ...

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 availabl... More

Young son of tenant farmer gathering sticks for workers to string tobacco on. Granville County, North Carolina

Young son of tenant farmer gathering sticks for workers to string toba...

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Cooperating farmers feeding corn from the wagon through the ensilage cutter from which it is blown thru the pipe into the silo. Yamhill County, Oregon. See general caption 48

Cooperating farmers feeding corn from the wagon through the ensilage c...

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Migratory child in camp at end of day. Bean pickers' camp near West Stayton, Oregon. See general caption number 46

Migratory child in camp at end of day. Bean pickers' camp near West St...

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 availabl... More

His family traveled with him on the freights. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

His family traveled with him on the freights. Washington, Toppenish, Y...

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 availabl... More

San Francisco, California. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

San Francisco, California. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public d...

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 availabl... More

Orange packer of Sunkist oranges. Self-built trailer. California

Orange packer of Sunkist oranges. Self-built trailer. California

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 availabl... More

Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake

Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tu...

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 availabl... More

Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. San Francisco, California

Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. Sa...

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 availabl... More

Mr. Taylor and wage laborer slide the tobacco to barn from the field, about quarter of a mile. Granville County, North Carolina

Mr. Taylor and wage laborer slide the tobacco to barn from the field, ...

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 availabl... More

Housing for rapidly growing fringe of lettuce workers on edge of town. There houses are built by the occupants, most of them recent migrants from the Southwest. (Subject of BAE) Frequently tents and trailers are on the same lots where houses are under construction. Salinas, California

Housing for rapidly growing fringe of lettuce workers on edge of town....

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 availabl... More

Potato pickers' camp. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Potato pickers' camp. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General c...

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 availabl... More

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administrati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Nine a.m. Four pupils attend this day, of the seven who are enrolled at the eastern Oregon county school. Between Pleasant Valley and Durkee, Baker County, Oregon

Nine a.m. Four pupils attend this day, of the seven who are enrolled a...

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 availabl... More

Packing fresh prunes at night on Produce Row during busy season, wages two cents per box. Washington, Yakima

Packing fresh prunes at night on Produce Row during busy season, wages...

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 availabl... More

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Bean pickers barber each other. See general caption number 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Bean pickers barber each oth...

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 availabl... More

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who picks beans during vacation time. See general caption number 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who p...

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 availabl... More

Vale Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon. Corner of the Dazey kitchen in the Homedale District

Vale Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon. Corner of the ...

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 availabl... More

Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California

Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California

File print misnumbered LC-USF341-001609-B; corrected 1998. Original negative missing. This negative made from file print. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War In... More

A black and white photo of a group of people sitting on a bench - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people sitting on a bench - FSA ...

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 availabl... More

Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figure out his year's earnings). California

Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figu...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a baby - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a baby - FSA / Office of War ...

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 availabl... More

El Monte Federal Subsistence Homesteads. 100 homes-all occupied. Each with 3/4 acre. Average family income $800 per yr. Feb. 1936.

El Monte Federal Subsistence Homesteads. 100 homes-all occupied. Each ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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