Climate Change Collection

The late flood of the Arno at Florence – from a sketch by E. W. Cooke, R.A., 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The late flood of the Arno at Florence - from a sketch by E. W. Cooke, R.A., 1864. View of '...the flood which visited that city from the sudden rise of the river Arno

Skating at Florence, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Skating at Florence, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by L. Caldesi. 'In Florence this year our English residents and visitors have been able to enjoy skating with as much zest as has been done

The Inundation at Lyons - sketched by Gustave Dore, 1856. Creator: Gustave Doré
The Inundation at Lyons - sketched by Gustave Dore, 1856. The English traveller who has visited France, and knows the districts through which the river Rhone runs from Lyons to the Mediterranean

L'incendie. Creator: Felix Francois Georges Philibert Ziem
L'incendie. Fire, vestiges of charred trees in the foreground

Woman in pea picker's camp, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman in pea picker's camp. California. "I seen our corn dry up and blow over the fence back there in Oklahoma"

Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, near Lordsburg, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico

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

Tenant farmer near Thomaston, Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tenant farmer near Thomaston, Georgia, speaking of the drought: "The crop is nigh to nothin as I ever see"

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

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

The town of Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The town of Mills, New Mexico. The grain elevator in background at right has been long ago abandoned. The bank is closed

Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest, near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939
Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of adjoining grocery store who allows workers to camp here rent-free

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Drought refugees stopped at inspection station on the California-Arizona state line, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees stopped at inspection station on the California-Arizona state line to have their baggage examined for plant pests 4

Refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field, nine miles from Calipatria, CA, 1937
Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

[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]

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"

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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