FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Young Migrant Mother”(1939)
Young migrant mother has just finished washing. Merrill FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp,Klamath County,Oregon.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Service Station”(1939)
Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. See general caption. A large variety and great number of service stations face highway.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Brawley Portrait”(1939)
Brawley,Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family father,mother and eleven children originally from Mangrum,Oklahoma.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Minna Street”(1939)
At Minna Street the army forms a semi-circle and sings to attract a crowd. Salvation Army,San Francisco,California.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Friends Church”(1939)
All the members of the congregation. Friends church (Quaker). Dead Ox Flat,Malheur County,Oregon.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Porterville,CA.”(1938)
1936 drought refugee from Polk,Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville,California.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Arkansas Hoosier”(1938)
An “Arkansas Hoosier”born in 1855. Conway,Arkansas. “My father was a Confederate soldier. He give his age a year older than it was MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Migrant Man Shaving” (1939)
On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge,en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. 1939
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Aldridge Plantation,Mississippi” (1937)
Old Negro. He hoes,picks cotton and is full of good humor. Aldridge Plantation,Mississippi.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Napa Valley,California” (1938)
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 MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Mississippi Delta,on Mississippi Highway No. 1″ (1938)
Mississippi Delta,on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale. Negro laborer’s family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Mexican Field Worker” (1935)
Mexican field worker,father of six. Imperial Valley,Riverside County,California.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Imperial Valley” (1939)
Large-scale agricultural gang labor,Mexicans and whites from the Southwest pull,clean,tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Children of Oklahoma” (1935)
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield,California. Family of six;no shelter,no food,no money and almost no gasoline. The child MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Log House” (1939)
Caroline Atwater standing in the kitchen doorway of double one and a half story log house. North Carolina. 1939.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Twenty-five year old Itinerant” (1939)
Car on siding across tracks from pea packing plant. Twenty-five year old itinerant,originally from Oregon. “On the road eight years,all over the country,MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Calipatria,Imperial Valley” (1939)
Calipatria,Imperial Valley,In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“The Arnolds” (1939)
The Arnold children and mother on their newly fenced and newly cleared land. Note strawberry plants. Western Washington,Thurston County,Michigan Hill. 1939.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Friends Church” (1939)
All the members of the congregation. Friends church (Quaker). Dead Ox Flat,Malheur County,Oregon. 1939
FSA:BEN SHAHN – “We Cater to White Trade Only”,Lancaster,Ohio,August,1938
Sign on restaurant,Lancaster,Ohio.
August,1938
Lancaster is a very prosperous town,the county seat of Fairfield County,which is considered to MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Imperial Valley,California” (1939)
In a carrot pickers’camp,Imperial Valley,California. Woman from Broken Bow,Oklahoma. “Are you going to take my picture,wait till I get MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “From Abilene,Texas” (1936)
Drought refugees from Abilene,Texas,following the crops of California as migratory workers. “The finest people in this world live in Texas but I MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Coachella Valley,California” (1935)
Date picker’s home. Coachella Valley,California. March,1935.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Between Tulare and Fresno” (1939)
Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Many auto camps of all kinds are strewn along this highway.
FSA COLLECTION:Marion Wolcott Post – “Coal miner’s children and wife” (1938)
Coal miner’s children and wife,Pursglove,West Virginia. 1938
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Memphis,Tennessee” (1938)
In Memphis,Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near the bridge every morning at daylight in hopes of work chopping cotton on a plantation. They MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Clarksdale,Mississippi” (1937)
Feet of Negro cotton hoer near Clarksdale,Mississippi.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Orange County,North Carolina” (1939)
Father crippled with rheumatism. When well he works in a chair making factory. Orange County,North Carolina.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Between Dallas and Austin” (1936)
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 MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Oklahoma Refugees” (1936)
Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Macon County” (1937)
Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County,Georgia.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Bakersfield” (1935)
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield,California. Family of six;no shelter,no food,no money and almost no gasoline. The child MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Kern County” (1939)
Rent eight dollars per month. California. Near Bakersfield.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Brawley” (1939)
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. MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “Imperial County” (1939)
In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father,eldest daughter and eldest son working. She:MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE COLLECTION:“Japanese Internment Camps” (1942)
As evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry progressed in April 1942,this sign,advertising a swimming pool,was posted in many San Francisco districts. MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE COLLECTION:“Japanese Internment Camps”(1942)
Hayward,Calif.–Two children of the Mochida family who,with their parents,are awaiting evacuation bus. The youngster on the right holds a sandwich given MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE COLLECTION:“Japanese Internment Camps”(1942)
Following evacuation orders,this store,at 13th and Franklin Streets,was closed. The owner,a University of California graduate of Japanese descent,placed the MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Migratory Mexican Worker”(1937)
Migratory Mexican field worker’s home on the edge of a frozen pea field. Imperial Valley,California.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Just Arrived from Kansas”(1939)
Just arrived from Kansas. On highway going to potato harvest. Near Merrill,Klamath County,Oregon.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Colored Laborers”(1938)
In Memphis,Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near the bridge every morning at daylight in hopes of work chopping cotton on a plantation. They MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“House Trailer”(1939)
The house trailer and the youngest little girl. Washington,Yakima Valley,Toppenish.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Hop Picker with Her Children”(1939)
Hop picker with her children goes from paymaster’s window to company-owned store adjoining. She had earned forty two cents that morning,spent it for one MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Contractor’s Camp”(1939)
A grandmother in a contractor’s camp. Stanislaus County,California. “Been in California fourteen months from Oklahoma. The main thing is to get our families located MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Lincoln Bench School”(1939)
Girls of Lincoln Bench School study their reading lesson. Near Ontario,Malheur County,Oregon.
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Cedargrove Team”(1939)
Fourth of July,near Chapel Hill,North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Boundary County,Idaho”(1939)
Father and son have cleared thirty acres of raw stump land in three years. Boundary County,Idaho.
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Between Dallas and Austin,Texas”(1936)
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 MORE
CARL MYDANS:“Lewis Hinter and Family”(1936)
Lewis Hinter,Negro client with his family on Lady’s Island off Beaufort,South Carolina.
June-July,1936
FSA:DOROTHEA LANGE –July,1939
Daughter of Negro sharecropper goes up and down the rows “worming”the tobacco. Wake County,North Carolina.
July,1939
FSA:DOROTHEA LANGE –February,1939
Colored family from near Houston,Texas. Been in California for two years. Husband came first,later sent for wife and two children,who traveled by MORE
FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown”(1936)
Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown.
August,1936
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DOROTHEA LANGE:“Drought Farmers”(1936)
Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street on the town while their crops burn up in the fields. “Hello Bill,when’s it MORE
DOROTHEA LANGE:“Country Store”(1939)
Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough,unfinished timber posts MORE
