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Agricultural Workers Collection (page 12)

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936

Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936

Homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936
Hightstown, New Jersey. The homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row. They have raised very successful crops. The farm was started in 1934

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Oklahoma refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma refugees. California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt, California, Kern County, 1936

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt, California, Kern County, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California, Kern County

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground, c.1670. Creator: Nicolaes Berchem

Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground, c.1670. Creator: Nicolaes Berchem
Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground, c.1670

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936

Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Camp of single men by the roadside...come in to work in the pea fields, Nipomo, California, 1935

Camp of single men by the roadside...come in to work in the pea fields, Nipomo, California, 1935
Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the pea fields. Nipomo, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Little Oklahoma, the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato... CA, 1936

Little Oklahoma, the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Little Oklahoma, the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato and cotton fields. California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: House in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

House in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
House in "Little Oklahoma, " California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937

Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937
Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937
Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in California, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling 'The Mock', 1850

Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling "The Mock", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling "The Mock", 1850. View showing the...rollers

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Cotton workers, outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939

Cotton workers, outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outskirts of Firebaugh. West side of San Joaquin Valley, California. Six families with twenty-two children live in this house. Cotton workers: "He's good (the boss)

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Filipino gang of spinach harvesters, near Santa Maria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Filipino gang of spinach harvesters, near Santa Maria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Santa Maria, California. Filipino gang of spinach harvesters

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Destitute farm labor families come to FSA distributing depot... Kern County, California, 1938

Destitute farm labor families come to FSA distributing depot... Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Listening to the speaker... Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Listening to the speaker... Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Listening to the speaker at the conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Cotton sharecroppers, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton sharecroppers, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia. They produce little, sell little, buy little

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field, five miles from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Warehouse, used as distributing office for FSA relief grants... Bakersfield, California, 1938

Warehouse, used as distributing office for FSA relief grants... Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Cotton workers, outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939

Cotton workers, outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California. Six families with twenty-two children live in this house. Cotton workers

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Tenant Purchase applicants, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tenant Purchase applicants, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tenant Purchase applicants. Stockton, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: On the steps of the bank in the public square, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the steps of the bank in the public square, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the steps of the bank in the public square. Memphis, Texas

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation, 1937

Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. Tractor drivers are not allowed to do anything but drive tractors. Repairs are made by the mechanic at the plantation garage

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Freightcar converted into home in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Freightcar converted into home in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Freightcar converted into home in "Little Oklahoma, " California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Creator: Unknown

Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Creator: Unknown
Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Long scroll ink painting depicting people with their animals and belongings crossing a river. Detail from a larger artwork

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Creator: Unknown

Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Creator: Unknown
Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Long scroll ink painting depicting people with their animals and belongings crossing a river. Detail from a larger artwork

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Peasant Woman Giving Directions to Monks, 1850. Creator: Eugenio Agneni

Peasant Woman Giving Directions to Monks, 1850. Creator: Eugenio Agneni
Peasant Woman Giving Directions to Monks, 1850

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Sketch in a House at Fahey's Quay, Ennis - the Widow Connor and her Dying Child, 1850

Sketch in a House at Fahey's Quay, Ennis - the Widow Connor and her Dying Child, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Sketch in a House at Fahey's Quay, Ennis - the Widow Connor and her Dying Child, 1850. Suffering during the Irish Potato Famine: In Ennis I went through the lanes and alleys

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Tenant Purchase applicants, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tenant Purchase applicants, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tenant Purchase applicants. Stockton, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California, 1938

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO)

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937

Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Camp of migratory workers, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camp of migratory workers, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp of migratory agricultural workers. Imperial County, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Rural Rehabilitation Administration client with the Rehabilitation Administration... CA, 1936

Rural Rehabilitation Administration client with the Rehabilitation Administration... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural Rehabilitation Administration client with the Rehabilitation Administration county agent. Outside of Hayward, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Rehabilitation clients, five miles outside Phoenix, Arizona, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Rehabilitation clients, five miles outside Phoenix, Arizona, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rehabilitation clients. Five miles outside Phoenix, Arizona. Five hundred dollar loan for poultry (considered a good loan)

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Home in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home in "Little Oklahoma, " a community that has grown out of migrant potato and cotton workers. California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, 1937

Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Destitute farm families, FSA distributing depot, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, 1938

Destitute farm families, FSA distributing depot, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Berry pickers at 5 am, waiting for the truck to haul them to work, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938

Berry pickers at 5 am, waiting for the truck to haul them to work, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Earn about sixty cents per day. Memphis, Tennessee

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1937

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Background imageAgricultural Workers Collection: Street and homes in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma, " California



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