Squatter camp facilities
Shelter with trash strewn around, Indio, Imperial Valley, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.
Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into...
Photograph shows cars crossing a bridge with a sign with the word "Yuma" on the top.
Father and child on train, Alaska
Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 2.
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].
Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent
House made of eucalyptus leaves, Bakersfield, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.
Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea har...
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Children of migratory workers, hauling water, American River camp, San...
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House in "Little Oklahoma," California
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Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for w...
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Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California
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Alabama Plow Girl, near Eutaw, Alabama
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Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Co...
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A black and white photo of a man working on barrels, Migrant shed work...
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Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...
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Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insuff...
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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a window sill, Negro in Gr...
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Oil tank farm near Odessa, Texas
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Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, Californ...
Other title from Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1988. p. 121. Title an... More
Hinds County, Mississippi. "Cotton rules the world," says this sharecr...
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Detail of Negro sharecropper's porch. Washington County, Mississippi
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Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the D...
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Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee
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Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. ...
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Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. ...
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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant
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The municipal levee at Greenville, Mississippi
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Young Negro boy in the corn. Near Leland, Mississippi
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Deaf Smith County, Texas. "It is reliably estimated that not less than...
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Colored plowboys on cotton plantation in Brazos riverbottoms coming in...
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Combine harvester in California. Wheat field. San Joaquin Valley
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Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma
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Contra Costa County, California. Cowbarn and hills, California dairy r...
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As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco i...
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Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Cafe on U.S. 99, formerly the "Oa...
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Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the thir...
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Bulldozer equipped with grader blade pushing over a stump. Western Was...
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Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in ...
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Tobacco barn with newly plastered furnace in preparation for "putting ...
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Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years of operation...
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Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho. Abandoned storage shed of the Humbird...
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Mrs. Dougherty in doorway of basement house. Warm Springs, Malheur Cou...
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Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three ...
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Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. In the neighborhood where t...
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Between Tulare and Fresno, California. (See general caption)
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Oklahoman and Missourian working in the same field crew sacking red cl...
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Potatoes in storage cellar at end of season. Merrill, Klamath County, ...
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Migrants from the Southwest bring their institutions with them. Greenf...
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Tobacco barns on the Stone place. Upchurch, North Carolina
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Entering Cow Hollow region in which practically all are FSA (Farm Secu...
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Washington, Klickitat County, near Goldendale, on U.S. 97. Abandoned f...
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Home of one of the Stephens brothers, farmers from Nebraska. Nyssa Hei...
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Fencing on new farms in cut-over area. Priest River Valley, Bonner Cou...
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Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of C...
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Surveying gang. WPA workers. Bosque Farms Project.
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A black and white photo of a man plowing a field, Man with cultivator....
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New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.
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A black and white photo of a city street, Background photograph for Hi...
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Father and son building home on wheels. Yuba Co. Calif. 1936.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The delta land of the Mississippi River is the largest alluvial sectio...
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Congregation gathers in groups to talk after services are over. Wheele...
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Indiana farmer. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo...
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Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississip...
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A political problem before the voters of San Francisco, California
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Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San ...
Significance: The Eagle Cafe was constructed as the first steamship passenger waiting room in San Francisco. It currently serves as a maritime worker's cafe noted for its authentic atmosphere. Survey number: H... More
A black and white photo of a group of tents, Migrants' camp. Californi...
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Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront, California
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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...
Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://ww... More
Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...
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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...
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Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will...
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Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta
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Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds o...
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Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the d...
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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant
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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...
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Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the W...
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Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, ...
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Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial...
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Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California
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Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico
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Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi
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Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.
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In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read ...
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Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween ...
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Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California
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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...
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Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico
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Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the ...
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Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new...
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Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...
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Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who p...
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Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tu...
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Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. Sa...
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George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages ...
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Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You ...
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Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned f...
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Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived h...
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Mrs. Soper tells how it was when they first came. Willow Creek area, M...
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Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina
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