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Displaced Persons Collection (page 4)

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrived in California June 1936, 1936

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrived in California June 1936, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. "Anybody as wants to work can get by

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma. Now living in Kern migrant camp, California

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton, 1936

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Part of migrant family of five, encamped near Porterville, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Part of migrant family of five, encamped near Porterville, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of migrant family of five, encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on outskirts of Porterville, California, 1936

Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on outskirts of Porterville, California, 1936
Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on the outskirts of Porterville, California, waiting for work in the orange groves

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 am for a day's work on the plantations, Mississippi, 1937

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 am for a day's work on the plantations, Mississippi, 1937
Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937

A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family of nine who are stranded and penniless in New Mexico

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Family walking on highway, five children, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family walking on highway, five children, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Migrant agricultural labor family, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California, 1938

Migrant agricultural labor family, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: On highway no. 1 of the 'OK' state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938

On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: On highway no. 1 of the 'OK' state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938

On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas, 1938

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Family camped on U.S. Highway 63, Cache County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family camped on U.S. Highway 63, Cache County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family camped on U.S. Highway 63. Cache County, Oklahoma

Background imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons 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 imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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 imageDisplaced Persons 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

Background imageDisplaced Persons Collection: Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project - Jewish-American, 1936

Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project - Jewish-American, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project. Jewish-American. This man is already employed on the project as carpenter



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