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Background imageDisaster Collection: Drought farmers come to town, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought farmers come to town, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought farmers come to town. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Background imageDisaster Collection: Farmers, Main street in Oklahoma town - Drought region, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farmers, Main street in Oklahoma town - Drought region, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers. Main street in Oklahoma town. Drought region

Background imageDisaster Collection: Oklahoma drought farmers, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma drought farmers, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma drought farmers. "Nothing to do. These fellers, " said one of them, "are goin to stay right here till they dry up and die too"

Background imageDisaster Collection: Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers, Near Russelville, Arkansas, 1936

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

Background imageDisaster Collection: Corn, dried up and lying in the field, between Dallas and Waco, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Corn, dried up and lying in the field, 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 imageDisaster Collection: Eroded cotton farm near Jackson, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Eroded cotton farm near Jackson, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eroded cotton farm near Jackson, Mississippi

Tree roots show how the land has been washed away, Wray Plantation, Greene County, Georgia, 1937
The tree roots show how the land has been washed away on this old plantation. Wray Plantation, Greene County, Georgia

Eroding field and fence, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eroding field and fence. Greene County, Georgia

This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rains in the Dust Bowl, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rains in the Dust Bowl. Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Background imageDisaster Collection: Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Background imageDisaster Collection: Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rain in the Dust Bowl, Auton, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rain in the Dust Bowl. Auton, Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Drought corn, Central Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought corn, Central Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought corn. Central Georgia

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Tenant farmer near Thomaston, Georgia, speaking of the drought, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all their earthly belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. Mississippi

Background imageDisaster Collection: Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. Mississippi

Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all their belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They come from Arkansas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Storm cellar on the Texas plains, West Texas Panhandle, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Storm cellar on the Texas plains, West Texas Panhandle, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Storm cellar on the Texas plains. West Texas Panhandle

Background imageDisaster Collection: Drying up corn, Near Eutaw, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageDisaster Collection: Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis. Hall County, Texas

Texas tenant farmer's house, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas tenant farmer's house. He operated this farm on thirds and fourths; that is, he supplies teams and tools, feed and seed to the owner's land

Background imageDisaster Collection: Squatter camp, Patterson, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Squatter camp, Patterson, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Patterson, California. Squatter camp

Background imageDisaster Collection: West Texas farmer replanting cotton, near Stanton, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

West Texas farmer replanting cotton, near Stanton, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
West Texas farmer replanting cotton. Had three inches of rain which washed out the first crop. Near Stanton, Texas

Background imageDisaster Collection: Migrants tents...along the right of way of the southern pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939

Migrants tents...along the right of way of the southern pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the southern pacific. Near Fresno, California

Migratory families at 7 a.m. near Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory families at 7 a.m. near Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisaster Collection: Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest, near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

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

Industrialized agricultural, near Niland, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Niland, Imperial Valley, California. Industrialized agricultural. New housing on large ranch for agricultural workers who live and work on ranch the year round

Aftermath of irrigation boom, Nyland, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton in California, 1921. Nyland, California

Drought refugees from Colorado, outskirts of San Bernardino, California. 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. A new home in California. Drought refugees from Colorado now making a new start in California. Living in Cotton Gardens

Eroded field, San Luis Obispo County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eroded field. San Luis Obispo County, California

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

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

Missouri family...seven months from the drought area, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, baby sick, car trouble." U.S. 99 near Tracy, California

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, baby sick, car trouble." U.S. 99 near Tracy, California

Abandoned tenant house, Childress County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house. Childress County, Texas

Abandoned tenant house, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house. Hall County, Texas

Three related Oklahoma drought refugee families near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Three related Oklahoma drought refugee families near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageDisaster Collection: Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Background imageDisaster Collection: Three related drought refugee families from Oklahoma on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937

Three related drought refugee families from Oklahoma on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937
Three related drought refugee families from Oklahoma on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageDisaster Collection: Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico

Strawberry grower from Oklahoma near Judsonia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Strawberry grower from Oklahoma near Judsonia forced to join the migratory workers in California for the season because the 1936 drought caused a shortage of plants



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