An old black and white photo of a man and a woman, Dispossessed Arkans...
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Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California
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Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and M...
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Utah coal miner. Consumers, near Price, Utah
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Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida
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Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their ho...
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Hoeing. Alabama negro tenant farmer and part of his family. Eutaw, Ala...
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Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, Alabama
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Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexic...
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Filipino boy, one of a labor gang, cutting cauliflower near Santa Mari...
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A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Erosion. Greene County,...
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Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California
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Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Th...
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An old photo of a man working on a barrel, Turpentine "stiller" near V...
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One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children. Hall County, Texas
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Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Bl...
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Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They ...
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Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. W...
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Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at no...
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Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tu...
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Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per c...
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Infirmary. Nyssa farm family labor camp. Mobile unit at opening of bee...
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Washington, Yakima Valley. Migrant fruit picker (single) takes rest in...
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On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. M...
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A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...
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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
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Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, Californ...
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Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japa...
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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 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 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. Mus...
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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, "Old age" near Wa...
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Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas
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Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. ...
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Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Clien...
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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 mem...
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A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Cotton weighin...
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Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama
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White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton c...
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Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cen...
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Building the road to the community factory. Hightstown, New Jersey
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A black and white photo of three men sitting on a porch, Storefront lo...
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A black and white photo of a large building, Concrete mixing plant. Bi...
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Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway
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Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, California
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Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years bef...
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El Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico where they...
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Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern Cou...
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Farm Security Administration (FSA) rural rehabilitation client. Tulare...
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Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children...
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Migratory woman, originally from Texas. Yakima Valley, Washington
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Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm,...
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Hired man helps the farmers' oldest boy on the Myers farm. Washington,...
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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 Caroli...
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Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta
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Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...
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Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...
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Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds o...
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A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Missi...
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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant
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Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial...
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Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico
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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...
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Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween ...
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In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read ...
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Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You ...
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Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figu...
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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.
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
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The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta,...
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Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
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A black and white photo of a building under construction, Slums of San...
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Main street, Utah coal town. Consumers, near Price, Utah
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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, Ca...
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Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
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Mexican melon picker of the Imperial Valley, unloading his bag. Califo...
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Unemployed men on Howard Street. San Francisco, California
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Southwestern New Mexico - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FS...
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Noontime chores: feeding chickens on Negro tenant farm. Granville Coun...
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Log home. Farm established six years ago. Priest River Peninsula, Bonn...
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New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of...
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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
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Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's wife. Ten miles south of Jacks...
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Congregation gathers after services to talk. Wheeley's Church, Person ...
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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 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
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.
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 Co...
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Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San...
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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 ye...
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