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The Dust Bowl Exodus

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Part of the daily motorcade of drought refugees. The Montana-North Dakota state line
The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history that happened during the Great Depression. Although overall three out of four farmers stayed on their land, the mass exodus depleted the population drastically in certain areas. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California.
Arriving in California, the migrants were faced with a life almost as difficult as the one they had left. Like the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, some 40 percent of migrant farmers wound up in the San Joaquin Valley, picking grapes and cotton. They took up the work of Mexican migrant workers, 120,000 of whom were repatriated during the 1930s.
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Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California

Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, Ca...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Early in 1935, their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California....

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

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Drought refugees in California migrant camp

Drought refugees in California migrant camp

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Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves

Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, California, ...

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Stranded in southern California. Belongings of Oklahoma drought refugees camped alongside the road

Stranded in southern California. Belongings of Oklahoma drought refuge...

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Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma," California

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma," California

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Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

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Farmers of Springfield, Colorado, listen attentively to H.H. Bennett of drought committee

Farmers of Springfield, Colorado, listen attentively to H.H. Bennett o...

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Drought committee stops for drink at artesian well on farm near Broadus, Montana

Drought committee stops for drink at artesian well on farm near Broadu...

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Housing in a tourist camp occupied by migrant citrus workers. Many migrants, who cannot afford to rent such houses, live in tents or in crude homemade trailers. Winterhaven, Florida

Housing in a tourist camp occupied by migrant citrus workers. Many mig...

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Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp

Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, ...

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Three related drought refugee families from Oklahoma on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Three related drought refugee families from Oklahoma on highway near L...

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Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son near Cland, New Mexico

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son near Cland, New Mexico

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White migrant talking in camp near Edinburg, Texas. These people claimed that they were not migrants, even though it was obvious that they were doing migrant day labor and the condition of their tents showed that they had been on the road for a long time. They expressed themselves as needing nothing and desiring no governmental aid. However they agreed to having the pictures made since they felt that there were other people that might be helped in that way

White migrant talking in camp near Edinburg, Texas. These people claim...

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Family of white migrants in their automobile east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Family of white migrants in their automobile east of Fort Gibson, Musk...

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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

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in 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

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Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family father, mother and eleven children originally from Mangrum, Oklahoma. See 19201

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

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Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. "Anybody as wants to work can get by. But if a person loses their faith in the soil like so many of them back there in Oklahoma, then there ain't no hope for them. We're making it all right here, all but for the schooling, 'cause that boy of mine, he wants to go to the University"

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California ...

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Old school bus. Williams County, North Dakota

Old school bus. Williams County, North Dakota

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

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Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the 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

Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, California

Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, Californ...

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On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief "because he once lived there."

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and younges...

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Idle migrants. Foothills north of San Jose, California. "If the sun shines tomorrow and nothin' happens, we'll pick, And they've got orders from the law, all of us guys who don't want to work here to move us out."

Idle migrants. Foothills north of San Jose, California. "If the sun sh...

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Children of migrants, Edinburg, Texas

Children of migrants, Edinburg, Texas

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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...

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Mexican migrants drinking cold drinks and buying candy at filling station where the truck which is taking them to their homes in the Rio Grande Valley has stopped. They had been picking cotton in Mississippi. Neches, Texas

Mexican migrants drinking cold drinks and buying candy at filling stat...

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Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

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Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven ...

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"This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, California

"This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, Cali...

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Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California

Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, Cal...

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Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new mi...

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

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

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Liberal (vicinity), Kan. Soil blown by dust bowl winds piled up in large drifts on a farm

Liberal (vicinity), Kan. Soil blown by dust bowl winds piled up in lar...

Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-52508-D Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1642.

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in Californi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Destitute family. American River camp. Five children aged two to seventeen. Near Sacramento California

Destitute family. American River camp. Five children aged two to seven...

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Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

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

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...

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Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned

Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This hous...

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Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma

Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drif...

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In a migratory camp. California

In a migratory camp. California

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico

Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers t...

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

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuc...

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U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys over this ridge

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and ...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Mother of family camped near a creek bed, panning for gold. "Slept in a bed all my life long till now--sleeping on the ground." Near Redding, California

Mother of family camped near a creek bed, panning for gold. "Slept in ...

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Auction sale notice. New Hradec (vicinity), North Dakota

Auction sale notice. New Hradec (vicinity), North Dakota

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Dr. Cooke, chairman of drought committee, at abandoned farm near Guymon, Oklahoma. President's report

Dr. Cooke, chairman of drought committee, at abandoned farm near Guymo...

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Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven ...

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to w...

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Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can't seem to accomplish nothin' there. Two year drought, then a crop, then two years drought and so on. I got two brothers still trying to make it back there and there they're sitting," said the father

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of Californi...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the daily motorcade of drought refugees. The Montana-North Dakota state line

Part of the daily motorcade of drought refugees. The Montana-North Dak...

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Mr. Page and Colonel Harrington of drought committee at farm near Guymon, Oklahoma

Mr. Page and Colonel Harrington of drought committee at farm near Guym...

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Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers' concentration camp in 1933 was in Corcoran

Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, Cal...

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

President Roosevelt speaking from train. Bismarck, North Dakota

President Roosevelt speaking from train. Bismarck, North Dakota

Photo shows U.S. Secret Service agent William "Bill" Simmons, bottom left (Source: Secret Service archivist, 2012)

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

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

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. No...

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

Southern Arizona, June 1938. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Southern Arizona, June 1938. Great Depression public domain photograph...

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Roadside used car display on State Highway 17, in season when migrants come into region for pea-picking. Santa Clara County, California

Roadside used car display on State Highway 17, in season when migrants...

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Migrant child sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

Migrant child sitting in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas

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Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by National Association of Manufacturers

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campa...

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Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. "We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody"

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depres...

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The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas

The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil agains...

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Icon Drought refugees. California, public domain photograph

Icon Drought refugees. 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

Supper time. Drought refugee from Oklahoma, shelterless, hoping to work in the peach harvest. Marysville, California

Supper time. Drought refugee from Oklahoma, shelterless, hoping to wor...

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Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat. (The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right., If you stay in the house and wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop. But I"ve seen only one year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something"

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexic...

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Texas woman in carrot pullers' camp. Imperial Valley, California. This sunbonnet is typical of women who came from Texas

Texas woman in carrot pullers' camp. Imperial Valley, California. This...

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In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father, eldest daughter and eldest son working

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea ha...

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Florida migrants studying road map before leaving Elizabeth City, North Carolina for the state of Delaware

Florida migrants studying road map before leaving Elizabeth City, Nort...

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American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migratory workers. Seven in family, came to California July 1935, following relatives who had come in 1933. Father was a coal miner in Tennessee. Reason for coming to California. "Our neighbors were coming. We only got one or two days work a week (relief.) Thought we could make it better here." Since arrival family has worked in walnuts, tomatoes, peaches, and the mother has worked in a fruit cannery

American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migrato...

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Migrant camp in California during the pea harvesting. San Luis Obispo County, California

Migrant camp in California during the pea harvesting. San Luis Obispo ...

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Mike Sullinger, who has a farm near Carson, North Dakota, looking for rain

Mike Sullinger, who has a farm near Carson, North Dakota, looking for ...

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Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seve...

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

Oregon or bust. Leaving South Dakota for a new start in the Pacific Northwest

Oregon or bust. Leaving South Dakota for a new start in the Pacific No...

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A very blue eagle. Along California highway

A very blue eagle. Along California highway

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Dirty clothes and flies. American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Dirty clothes and flies. American River camp, near Sacramento, Califor...

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Drought refugees from South Dakota on highway making sure that nothing falls off the trailer to the Pacific Coast. Montana

Drought refugees from South Dakota on highway making sure that nothing...

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Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California

Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, Calif...

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Discovered farm machinery half-buried in drifting dust. Williams County, North Dakota

Discovered farm machinery half-buried in drifting dust. Williams Count...

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The Huravitch family, farmers in Williams County, North Dakota

The Huravitch family, farmers in Williams County, North Dakota

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Mother and child in home near Williston, North Dakota

Mother and child in home near Williston, North Dakota

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno. Migrants on the road. California. See general caption

Between Tulare and Fresno. Migrants on the road. California. See gener...

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Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The child is a flood refugee from southeast Missouri

Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The chil...

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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...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr... More

Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned

Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This hous...

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Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico

Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is ...

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

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father ...

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California ...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman in pea picker's camp. California. "I seen our corn dry up and blow over the fence back there in Oklahoma."

Woman in pea picker's camp. California. "I seen our corn dry up and bl...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fighting sand. Childress County, Texas Panhandle. Cultivating weedless cotton fields in Great Plains to break crust and prevent blowing sand from cutting young cotton plants

Fighting sand. Childress County, Texas Panhandle. Cultivating weedless...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Bow, Oklahoma

In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and forth between Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys over this ridge

U.S. 99, Kern County, California. Migrants travel seasonally back and ...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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