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Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Abandoned land, exhausted soil, Carter County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Abandoned land, exhausted soil, Carter County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carter County, Oklahoma. Abandoned land, exhausted soil

Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tennessee ex-farmers drifting around, looking for work in cotton

Background imageCatastrophe 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 imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Missouri family of five on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees in California migrant camp, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees in California migrant camp, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California migrant camp

Background imageCatastrophe 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 imageCatastrophe 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

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: [Untitled, possibly related to: Corn, dried up... between Dallas and Waco, Texas, 1936

[Untitled, possibly related to: Corn, dried up... between Dallas and Waco, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Corn, dried up and lying in the field. The temperature was over one hundred degrees. Between Dallas and Waco, Texas

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: [Untitled, possibly related to: Corn, dried up... between Dallas and Waco, Texas], 1936

[Untitled, possibly related to: Corn, dried up... between Dallas and Waco, Texas], 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corn, dried up and lying in the field. The temperature was over one hundred degrees. Between Dallas and Waco, Texas]

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: A Georgia tenant farmer, Thomaston (vicinity), Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

A Georgia tenant farmer, Thomaston (vicinity), Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Thomaston (vicinity), Georgia. A Georgia tenant farmer who says, "This crop (1936) is nigh to nothin as I ever see"

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Typical view of the rolling character of the area, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Typical view of the rolling character of the area, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Typical view of the rolling character of the area. Town of Mills in distance, New Mexico

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Stand of vega grass eaten off close, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Stand of vega grass eaten off close, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stand of vega grass eaten off close. In good seasons hay can be cut from areas like this. New Mexico

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission

Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter

Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees)

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee and her... CA, 1936

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee and her... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee and her four sons. California

Background imageCatastrophe 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 imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Texas drought refugees in cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Texas drought refugees in cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas drought refugees in cotton camp near Exeter, California

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Dust Bowl farm, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust Bowl farm, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas. This farm is occupied. Others in this area have been abandoned

Abandoned farm on the edge of the Great Plains, Roswell (vicinity), New Mexico, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Roswell (vicinity), New Mexico. Abandoned farm on the edge of the Great Plains

Oklahoma roadside encounter day laborers, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma roadside encounter day laborers. "After three years, dry years, not a thing a fellow like me can do. I'd get out

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: California home of Oklahoma drought refugee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: California home of Oklahoma drought refugee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: California home of Oklahoma drought refugee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

California home of Oklahoma drought refugee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California home of Oklahoma drought refugee

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street of the town, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, 1936

Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street of the town, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
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 gonna rain?"

Mailbox in Dust Bowl, Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street of the town, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, 1936

Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street of the town, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street of the town while their crops burn up in the fields. "The guvment may keep us a little I reckon." Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Sand drift along fence, Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sand drift along fence. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Farmers on main street discussing drought, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936

Farmers on main street discussing drought, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers on main street discussing drought. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma. "The record of the Great Plains is to a great extent a record of settlement and abandonment." J. Russell Smith

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers, 1936

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers, 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

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl, Coldwater District, 30 miles north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938

Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl, Coldwater District, 30 miles north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl. Coldwater District, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

Blowing dust in the Oklahoma Panhandle, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Blowing dust in the Oklahoma Panhandle

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
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 that on this day, August 17

Background imageCatastrophe Collection: Main street during 1936 drought, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Main street during 1936 drought, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Main street during 1936 drought. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma



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