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Displacement Collection (#10)

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Cotton hoers, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton hoers, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest of the year they live on odd jobs and relief. Memphis, Tennessee

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Three families camped on the plains along US99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Three families camped on the plains along US99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Three families camped on the plains along US 99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Three families camped on the plains along US 99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Three families camped on the plains along US 99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Three families camped on the plains along US 99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Three families camped on the plains along US 99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Three families camped on the plains along US 99 in California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp, Imperial Valley, California, near Calipatria, 1937

Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp, Imperial Valley, California, near Calipatria, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp. Imperial Valley, California, near Calipatria

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Orange pickers camp, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Orange pickers camp, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Orange pickers camp. Tulare County, California. Rent one dollar per week

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain, Kern County, CA, 1938

Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain, Kern County, CA, 1938
Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain. Kern County, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain, Kern County, CA, 1938

Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain, Kern County, CA, 1938
Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it started to rain. Kern County, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers, Tulare County, California, 1938

Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Nebraska farmer come to pick peas, Near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Nebraska farmer come to pick peas, Near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Part of family arrived the night before...near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Part of family arrived the night before...near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked their way across the country. Encamped on the river bottom. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Part of family arrived the night before... near Holtville, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939

Part of family arrived the night before... near Holtville, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked their way across the country. Encamped on the river bottom. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Gen Miles and staff viewing the largest hostile Indian Camp in the US, near Pine... c1891

Gen Miles and staff viewing the largest hostile Indian Camp in the US, near Pine... c1891. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Gen Miles and staff viewing the largest hostile Indian Camp in the US, near Pine Ridge,s Dak, Jan 16, 1891, c1891. Seven military men on horseback viewing a Lakota camp from a distant hillside

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Villa of Brule, c1891. Creator: John C. H. Grabill

Villa of Brule, c1891. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Villa of Brule, c1891. A Lakota tipi camp near Pine Ridge, in background; horses at White Clay Creek watering hole, in the foreground

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season, 1935

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Toward Los Angeles, California. ['Next Time Try the Train - Relax - Southern Pacific']

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: One of migratory family in FSA labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

One of migratory family in FSA labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Daughter of migratory family in FSA labor camp, Calpatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Daughter of migratory family in FSA labor camp, Calpatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Daughter of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calpatria, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Young migrant mother... FSA emergency camp, Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Young migrant mother... FSA emergency camp, Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young migrant mother who lives in one of the tents. California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency camp. Calipatria. [Note upturned pea-picking basket used as a seat]

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Son-in law of migratory family in FSA labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Son-in law of migratory family in FSA labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939
Son-in law of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageDisplacement Collection: FSA emergency migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

FSA emergency migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Bean pickers tent, one of fourteen in a group... near West Stayton Marion County, Oregon, 1939

Bean pickers tent, one of fourteen in a group... near West Stayton Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bean pickers tent, one of fourteen in a group on growers property, adjoining the bean field. Near West Stayton Marion County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Squatter camp before season opens, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Squatter camp before season opens, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp before season opens. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: One of the forty potato camps in open field... Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

One of the forty potato camps in open field... Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Families camped on flat before season opens waiting... near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Families camped on flat before season opens waiting... near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
Families camped on flat before season opens waiting for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) mobile unit to open. No sanitation, no water. Near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Potato workers camp, no tents, waiting for... Outskirts of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Potato workers camp, no tents, waiting for... Outskirts of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
Outskirts of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Potato workers camp, no tents, waiting for farm family labor camp (FSA - Farm Security Administration) to open

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Squatter camp in potato town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Squatter camp in potato town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp in potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Families camped on flat before season opens... near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Families camped on flat before season opens... near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Families camped on flat before season opens, waiting for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) mobile unit to open. No sanitation, no water. Near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Squatter camp entering potato town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Squatter camp entering potato town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp entering potato town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Young family on ditch bank, waiting to enter... camp (FSA), Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Young family on ditch bank, waiting to enter... camp (FSA), Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
Young family on ditch bank, waiting to enter farm family labor camp (FSA - Farm Security Administration). They came from North Dakota, have young baby

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers... Merrill, Oregon, 1939

Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers... Merrill, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers on the Pacific Coast. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Migratory family, come to Klamath Basin for potato harvest... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Migratory family, come to Klamath Basin for potato harvest... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
Migratory family, come to Klamath Basin for potato harvest, moving into tent in the new mobile unit. (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Tents are provided. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town, Malin, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
One of the forty potato camps in open field, entering town. Malin, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Manager of mobile unit (FSA), on day camp opened... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Manager of mobile unit (FSA), on day camp opened... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Manager of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration) on day camp opened, in registration tent. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: We made good money in the cherries this year, FSA unit, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

We made good money in the cherries this year, FSA unit, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
We made good money in the cherries this year. From then on we made just beans. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Woman in mobile unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Shows pickers tents, power unit and shower bath... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Shows pickers tents, power unit and shower bath... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
Shows pickers tents, power unit and shower bath unit beyond. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

Background imageDisplacement Collection: This family came to the potato harvest after the... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

This family came to the potato harvest after the... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
This family came to the potato harvest after the Oregon hop harvest. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp unit. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Migrant children, FSA mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant children, FSA mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant children, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In unit of FS (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Young mother, aged twenty-two... FSA mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Young mother, aged twenty-two... FSA mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young mother, aged twenty-two, has one little girl three years old. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In mobile unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. New baby expected in December

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Young mother, aged twenty-two, has one little girl... FSA, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Young mother, aged twenty-two, has one little girl... FSA, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
Young mother, aged twenty-two, has one little girl three years old. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In mobile unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. New baby expected in December

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Family of six in tent after supper, FSA mobile unit, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Family of six in tent after supper, FSA mobile unit, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery

Background imageDisplacement Collection: Migratory field workers at 5 a. m. waiting in the carrot field to hold a place to work, 1939

Migratory field workers at 5 a. m. waiting in the carrot field to hold a place to work, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field workers at 5 a.m. waiting in the carrot field to hold a place to work, which starts at 8 a.m

Background imageDisplacement Collection: In FSA migratory labor camp, Sinclair Ranch, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

In FSA migratory labor camp, Sinclair Ranch, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mother, father and eleven children, originally from Oklahoma, where he had been a tenant farmer



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