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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,every state in the union,back and forth,pick up a job here and there,travelling all the time.”Calipatria,Imperial Valley. 1939. …MORE

DOROTHEA LANGE:“Imperial Valley”(1939)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 of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen. Near Meloland,Imperial Valley. Near Meloland,Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor,Mexican and white,from the Southwest. Pull,clean,tie and crat…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 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. August,1936. …MORE

DOROTHEA LANGE:“Twenty-five year old Itinerant” (1939)

DOROTHEA LANGE:“Imperial Valley”(1939)DOROTHEA LANGE:“Imperial Valley” (1939)

FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange – “From Abilene,Texas” (1936)

DOROTHEA LANGE:“Log House” (1939)

DOROTHEA LANGE:“Children of Oklahoma” (1935)

FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown”(1936)

DOROTHEA LANGE:“The Arnolds” (1939)