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Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1936
1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California
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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An old black and white photo of a man and a woman, Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman, Dispossessed Arkans...

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

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California

Additional information on caption card: See mount [i.e. print caption] for further information. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictur... More

Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon and family, 133 Avenue D, New York City. This family is included in the first unit of thirty-five families to be resettled at Hightstown in July, 1936. For four very small rooms in tenement they pay eighteen dollars monthly

Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and M...

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 miner. Consumers, near Price, Utah

Utah coal miner. Consumers, near Price, Utah

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

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida

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

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. The 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...

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

Hoeing. Alabama negro tenant farmer and part of his family. Eutaw, Alabama

Hoeing. Alabama negro tenant farmer and part of his family. Eutaw, Ala...

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

Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, Alabama

Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, Alabama

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

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexic...

Additional information on caption card: See 16676-C [i.e. LC-USF34-016676-C]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washin... More

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

Filipino boy, one of a labor gang, cutting cauliflower near Santa Mari...

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

A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Erosion. Greene County, Georgia

A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Erosion. Greene County,...

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

Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California

Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, 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

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Thin dimes around the ankles to prevent headaches

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Th...

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

An old photo of a man working on a barrel, Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia

An old photo of a man working on a barrel, Turpentine "stiller" near V...

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

One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children. Hall County, Texas

One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children. Hall County, Texas

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

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Black beads hung between the breasts are good for heart trouble

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Bl...

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

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They ...

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

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. W...

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

Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five

Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at no...

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

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See general caption number 65

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. 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

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per 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

Infirmary. Nyssa farm family labor camp. Mobile unit at opening of beet campaign. Malheur County, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

Infirmary. Nyssa farm family labor camp. Mobile unit at opening of bee...

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

Washington, Yakima Valley. Migrant fruit picker (single) takes rest in the mid-morning. General caption number 3A

Washington, Yakima Valley. Migrant fruit picker (single) takes rest in...

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

On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. See general caption 1

On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. M...

Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More

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

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...

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's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mot...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/prin... More

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

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

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, Californ...

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

Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas, California, prior to a War Relocation Authority center

Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japa...

Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

At the Self Help Association, dairy farm unit, California.

At the Self Help Association, dairy farm unit, California.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with one of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/pri... More

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/pri... More

Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia

Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Mus...

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, "Old age" near Washington, Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, "Old age" near Wa...

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

Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas

Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas

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

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service 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

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Clien...

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. More information ... More

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. United States No. 99, California

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. Un...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003804-ZE; corrected 1998. Print in microfilmed lot misnumbered 38042-E. Title and other information from caption card... More

Evicted Arkansas sharecropper. One of the more active of the union members (Southern Tenant Farmers Union). Now building his new home at Hill House, Mississippi

Evicted Arkansas sharecropper. One of the more active of the union mem...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Cotton weighing near Robstown, Texas

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Cotton weighin...

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

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

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

White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi

White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton 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

Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cents a day. Muscella, Georgia

Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cen...

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

Building the road to the community factory. Hightstown, New Jersey

Building the road to the community factory. Hightstown, New Jersey

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

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a porch, Storefront loafers. Mississippi Delta

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a porch, Storefront lo...

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

A black and white photo of a large building, Concrete mixing plant. Birmingham, Alabama

A black and white photo of a large building, Concrete mixing plant. Bi...

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 worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

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

Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, California

Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, 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

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender"

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years bef...

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 Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico where they benefit by the rate of exchange. Texas

El Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico where they...

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

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern Cou...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) rural rehabilitation client. Tulare...

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

Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children. On U.S. 99. Near Famosa or Vamosa, Kern County, California

Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children...

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

Migratory woman, originally from Texas. Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory woman, originally from Texas. Yakima Valley, Washington

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, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm, where her family still lives. She and her husband are migratory laborers and live in a shack in Klamath County waiting for potato harvest to open. "My husband just day labors."

Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm,...

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

Hired man helps the farmers' oldest boy on the Myers farm. Washington, near Outlook, Yakima County

Hired man helps the farmers' oldest boy on the Myers farm. Washington,...

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

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Migrant family in Kern County.

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Migrant family in Kern ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Son of Negro sharecropper "worming" tobacco. Wake County, North Carolina

Son of Negro sharecropper "worming" tobacco. Wake County, North Caroli...

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

Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

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

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...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Icon Migrants. California., public domain photograph

Icon Migrants. California., public domain photograph

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

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

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

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

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta, Aldridge Plantation

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta,...

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

Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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 building under construction, Slums of San Francisco, California

A black and white photo of a building under construction, Slums of San...

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

Main street, Utah coal town. Consumers, near Price, Utah

Main street, Utah coal town. Consumers, near Price, Utah

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

Center Market. Washington, D.C. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Center Market. Washington, D.C. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...

Title and other information from caption card. Date indicates this could be the Florida Avenue Market, which replaced Center Market after it was torn down in 1931 (Source: Tangires' Public Markets, 2008, p. 187... More

Food supply of migrant family. American River camp near Sacramento, California

Food supply of migrant family. American River camp near Sacramento, Ca...

Additional information on caption card: See mounts 9920, 9921 [i.e. print captions for LC-USF34-009920 and LC-USF34-009921]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, 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

Mexican melon picker of the Imperial Valley, unloading his bag. California

Mexican melon picker of the Imperial Valley, unloading his bag. Califo...

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

Unemployed men on Howard Street. San Francisco, California

Unemployed men on Howard Street. San Francisco, 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

Southwestern New Mexico - Drawing. Public domain image.

Southwestern New Mexico - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FS...

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

Noontime chores: feeding chickens on Negro tenant farm. Granville County, North Carolina

Noontime chores: feeding chickens on Negro tenant farm. Granville Coun...

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

Log home. Farm established six years ago. Priest River Peninsula, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 49

Log home. Farm established six years ago. Priest River Peninsula, Bonn...

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

New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of North America and formation of energy units, which had widespread vogue in the early years of depression. Josephine County, Oregon

New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of...

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

Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" pl...

Photograph shows the Wanto Co. store located at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California. The business was owned by the Matsuda family. Tatsuro Matsuda, a University of California graduate, ... More

Negroes under the National Youth Administration. Live Oak, Florida

Negroes under the National Youth Administration. Live Oak, Florida

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

Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's wife. Ten miles south of Jackson, Mississippi

Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's wife. Ten miles south of Jacks...

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

Congregation gathers after services to talk. Wheeley's Church, Person County, North Carolina

Congregation gathers after services to talk. Wheeley's Church, Person ...

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

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest. Nipomo, California

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea har...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003803-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Infor... More

Squatter camp facilities

Squatter camp facilities

Shelter with trash strewn around, Indio, Imperial Valley, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Portrait photo of Oklahoma squatter's family, Riverside Co.

Photograph shows a woman seated with her children at the entrance to a squatter's shelter. In album: Rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California / compiled by Paul S. Taylor. 1935, [bottom, plate 31].

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Co...

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

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San Joaquin Valley, California

Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San...

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

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby. Father said "They call me a road hog and a bum; but if I am, how did that boy get into the eighth grade?" American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insuff...

Additional information on caption card: See 9919, 9916, 9921 [i.e. LC-USF34-009919-C, LC-USF34-009916-E and LC-USF34-009921]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of Wa... More

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...

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

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