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Background imageAmericans Collection: Italians marching into stadium, 23 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Italians marching into stadium, 23 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Italians marching into stadium, 23 Jun 1917. Italians marching with large American flag at a ceremony honoring Prince Ferdinando of Udine, head of the Italian War Commission to the United States

Background imageAmericans Collection: Italians marching to stadium, 23 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Italians marching to stadium, 23 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Italians marching to stadium, 23 Jun 1917. Italian Americans marching to a ceremony honoring Prince Udine and the Italian Military Mission to the United States

Background imageAmericans Collection: U.S.S. Brooklyn, Japanese stewards, between 1896 and 1899. Creator: Unknown

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Japanese stewards, between 1896 and 1899. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Brooklyn, Japanese stewards, between 1896 and 1899

Background imageAmericans Collection: Drought refugees - penniless Oklahomans camped along highway, California, 1936

Drought refugees - penniless Oklahomans camped along highway, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Background imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans Collection: Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at home before evacuation. The father and the mother were born in Japan and came to this country in 1904

Background imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans Collection: Tigre Island - the United States Garrison, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Tigre Island - the United States Garrison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Tigre Island - the United States Garrison, 1850. Sketch by "a Traveller in Central America"...by no means a caricature picture of the United States garrison upon the Island

Background imageAmericans 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 imageAmericans 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
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937

One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California

Background imageAmericans 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
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways

Background imageAmericans 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
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways

Background imageAmericans Collection: Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Sticks, palm leaves and paper are used for protection against wind and cold

Background imageAmericans Collection: Housing for Oklahoma refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Agricultural day laborer. Muskogee County

Background imageAmericans Collection: Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Agricultural day laborer. Muskogee County

Background imageAmericans Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageAmericans Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageAmericans Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter

Background imageAmericans Collection: Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers...Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers...Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, 1935

Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico

Background imageAmericans Collection: Escalante people, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Escalante people, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Escalante people. Utah

Background imageAmericans Collection: On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California, 1935

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Memorial Day services at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Maye Noma, behind the plate, and Tomi Nagao, at bat, in a practice game between members of the Chick-a-dee softball team

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Newcomers at Santa Anita Park Assembly Center in Arcadia, California, receive vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever. Under direction of Dr

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas, California, prior to a War Relocation Authority center

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park Assembly Center at Arcadia, California, for evacuees of Japanese ancestry

Background imageAmericans Collection: Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu... 1861)

Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu... 1861. Creator: Yoshikazu)
Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu no kei doban no utsushi), 1861. [Americans seen through Japanese eyes]

Background imageAmericans Collection: Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade



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