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Warehouse used as distributing office for FSA relief grants, Bakersfield, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families. Bakersfield, California

Waiting for the relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for the relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the semi-monthly relief checks at Calipatria, California

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma

Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus... near Tifton, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus which they employ at seasonal peaks

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Coachella Valley, California. Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. "We come from all states, and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways

Ex-tenants, now day laborers, Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years... Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years. He has six children. This year he was forced into status of day laborer on the same farm

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways

Sign at a tomato packing shed for migrant and local labor, Hazelhurst, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sign at a tomato packing shed for migrant and local labor. Hazelhurst, Mississippi. ['Attention All Employees! No Checks Issued without Social Security Account Number

Warehouse, used as distributing office for FSA... Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938

Mexicans, field laborers, on strike in cotton picking season, Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexicans, field laborers, on strike in cotton picking season, apply to Farm Security Administration (FSA) for relief. Bakersfield, California

Migrant potato pickers pitching... Near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without water and sanitary conditions. Near Shafter, California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Some of the carrot pullers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. California

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers, Kern County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers, Kern County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked

Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, Kern County, California, 1938
Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, which took place just before the election. Kern County, California

From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California. Cotton strike (Nov. 1938). He displays his union membership book. "Vote No on No

Industrialized agriculture, from Texas farmer to migratory worker in California, Kern County, 1938
Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in California. Kern County

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Men on "Skid Row", Modesto, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA) California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

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

During the cotton strike, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

Street meeting at night...outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO)

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO)

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across... Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit)

What is left of the alcohol plant, built to utilize refuse, Fullerton, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
What is left of the alcohol plant, built to utilize refuse. Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town

Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted. Greene County, Georgia

Striking longshoremen during the waterfront strike in San Francisco, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Striking longshoremen during the waterfront strike in San Francisco, California

Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Near Kiln, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. The tract extends for thirty-seven miles. A lumber industry owner did no replanting and cut out on 1931 after eighteen years of operations

Cutting Turf, and Preparing it for the Rick, 1850. Creator: Smyth
Cutting Turf, and Preparing it for the Rick, 1850. Making peat charcoal at Derrymullen, Kildare, Ireland:.. two skenes are used to chop or make a long incision in the bank or bench from which

The Owner of the Vineyard Paying his Labourers... 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Owner of the Vineyard Paying his Labourers - painted by Rembrandt - from the Gallery of the late King of Holland, at the Hague, 1850

Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National advertising campaign sponsored by National Association of Manufacturers

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Some of the walls of the bank still stand at Fullerton, Louisiana, abandoned lumber town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Some of the walls of the bank still stand at Fullerton, Louisiana, abandoned lumber town

Remains of drug store at Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Remains of drug store at Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town

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