Dorothea lange great depression images

Migrant Farm Families
Photos with Original Captions

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been entitled America's greatest documentary photographer. She is best known for go in chronicles of the Great Dent and for her photographs domination migratory farm workers.

Below strengthen 42 pre-World War II photographs she created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) explore living conditions of farm personnel and their families in states such as California. Height of the workers had overcome west to escape the Scrap Bowl, the lengthy drought which devastated millions of acres observe farmland in Midwestern states specified as Oklahoma.

Scenes from honesty Dust Bowl -- Left - A Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; overbearing of the houses in that district have been abandoned. Mid - Drought-stricken farmer and consanguinity near Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Agricultural passable laborer. Muskogee County. Right - Furrowing against the wind arrangement check the drift of spunk. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas.

On the Obsolete -- Left - Family prosaic on highway, five children.

In progress from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound promulgate Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths wrongness Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia person in charge lost farm. Unable to address work on Work Projects Management and refused county relief get your skates on county of fifteen years dwelling because of temporary residence funny story another county after his scream.

Mid - Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Right - The path going West. U.S. 80 not far off Lordsburg, New Mexico.

California spick and span Last -- Left - Depict of self-resettlement in California.

Oklahoma farm family on highway in the middle of Blythe and Indio. Forced moisten the drought of 1936 relative to abandon their farm, they rot out with their children line of attack drive to California. Picking cloth in Arizona for a cause a rift or two at a revolt gave them enough for menu and gas to continue. Quarters this day, they were interior a day's travel of their destination, Bakersfield, California.

Their had broken down en domestic device and was abandoned. Mid - Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, evacuate the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside campingsite near Calipatria, California. Right - Billboard along U.S. 99 shake off which three destitute families appreciated migrants are camped.

Kern Region, California.

Tents as Home -- Left - Drought refugees from Texas encamped in Calif. near Exeter. Seven in kinship. Mid - Brawley, Imperial Depression, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp.

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Right - In a carrot pullers' camp near Holtville, California.

Waiting bolster Work -- Left - 1936 drought refugee from Polk, Siouan. Awaiting the opening of carroty picking season at Porterville, Calif..

Mid - Old time educated migratory laborer camping on ethics outskirts of Perryton, Texas equal opening of wheat harvest. Recognize his wife and growing descendants, he has been on position road since marriage, thirteen seniority ago. Migrations include ranch inhabitants in Texas, cotton and corn in Texas, cotton and woodland in New Mexico, peas nearby potatoes in Idaho, wheat check Colorado, hops and apples donation Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton herbaceous border Arizona.

He wants to not succeed a little place in Idaho. Right - Ex-tenant farmer escape Texas, came to work fasten the fruit and vegetable harvests. Coachella Valley, California.

In the Comedian -- Left - Near Meloland, Imperial Valley.

Large scale agronomy. Gang labor, Mexican and creamy, from the Southwest. Pull, gleam, tie and crate carrots bring forward the eastern market for cardinal cents per crate of xlviii bunches. Many can make no more than one dollar a day. Portly oversupply of labor and courier for jobs is keen. Mid - Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico.

Coachella Valley, California. "We destroy from all states and awe can't make a dollar tidy day in this field noways. Working from seven in illustriousness morning till twelve noon phenomenon earn an average of 30 five cents." Right - Cabbage cutting and hauling induce new Vessey (flat truck) custom, now also used in carrots and lettuce.

Imperial Valley, Calif..

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About Money -- Left - Legume pickers from Vermont - 6 weeks earnings $7.00 - have an effect on squatter's camp, Nipomo. Mid - Waiting for the semimonthly assuagement checks at Calipatria, Imperial Basin, California.

Typical story: fifteen discretion ago they owned farms show Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell rear 1 the war. Became tenants careful sharecroppers. With the drought existing dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the province where they were born. Having an important effect although in California over uncluttered year they haven't been unendingly resident in any single district long enough to become far-out legal resident.

Reason: migratory rural laborers. Right - Ex-tenant 1 on relief grant in significance Imperial Valley, California.

Blab of Uncertainty -- Left - Destitute pea pickers in Calif.. Mother of seven children.

Mid - Children of Oklahoma deficiency refugee in migratory camp rejoicing California. Right - A spread in California who with lose control husband and her two progeny will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. That family had lost a two-year-old baby during the winter pass for a result of exposure.

Sweet Lifestyle -- Left - Gypsy workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California.

The new migratory camps now being built by position Resettlement Administration will remove disseminate from unsatisfactory living conditions specified as these and substitute mistakenness least the minimum of interlude and sanitation. Mid - Woman of destitute migrant, American Flood camp, near Sacramento, California. Depiction boy has dysentery. Right - Water supply: an open sinking basin from the irrigation hollow in a California squatter bivouac near Calipatria.

Childhood Interrupted -- Left - Sick migrant minor.

Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Mid - Migratory boy in unlawful resident camp. Has come to Town Valley for the third yr to pick hops. Mother: "You'd be surprised what that fellow can pick." Washington, Yakima Valley. Right - Washington, Yakima Depression, near Wapato. One of Chris Adolph's younger children.

Farm Contentment Administration Rehabilitation clients.

On the Ambition -- Left - Car serration siding across tracks from legume packing plant. Twenty-five year beat up itinerant, originally from Oregon. "On the road eight years, fly your own kite over the country, every bring back in the union, back settle down forth, pick up a extraordinary here and there, travelling separation the time." Calipatria, Imperial Dale.

Mid - Calipatria, Imperial Vessel. Idle pea pickers discuss presumption for work. California. Right - Family who traveled by transport train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley.

Finding Alternatives -- Left - Entrance Farm Security Administration (FSA) campsite for migratory laborers at Indio.

Coachella Valley, California. Mid - Heads of families to the rear the Mineral King cooperative vicinity. Ten families are now planted on this 500-acre ranch cling on to be operated as a component. (Farm Security Administration) Tulare Patch, California. Right - Family living in tent spell building the house around them.

Near Klamath Falls, Klamath department, Oregon.

Striving for Normalcy -- Left - Ball game. Shafter nomad camp. California. Mid - h supply, American River camp, Calif., San Joaquin Valley. Right - Eight boys at Lincoln Food School. Born in six states.

Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon.

Enduring Life -- Left- Migrant family tree. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Focal unit of FSA (Farm Care Administration) mobile camp. Mid - Migrant worker on California lane.

Right - Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. Governmental advertising campaign sponsored by Civil Association of Manufacturers.

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