Farmhand Collection (page 25)

Refugees from the 1936 drought, came to California for a new start, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Pea picker carrying a hamper of peas to the weighmaster, Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea picker carrying a hamper of peas to the weighmaster. Nipomo, California

Mexican family, Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California

Picking peas near Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Picking peas near Nipomo, California. Wages: twenty-two cents a hamper

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Home of Mexican field laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California, Imperial Vallery
Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California. Outskirts of Calipatria. Imperial Valley

The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Firebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers

Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Firebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers

Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Firebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers

Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp

Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine"

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with his wife and four children

Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful. Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Speaker, migratory worker, Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization, Bakersfield, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California

Formerly rehabilitation clients now operating own farm, near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients, now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent

El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

Russian Peasants, 1841. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Russian Peasants, 1841

Formerly rehabilitation clients now operating own farm, near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize

Wife of formerly rehabilitation client now operating own farm, near Manteca, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize

Formerly rehabilitation clients now operating own farm, near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize

Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize, near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments

Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize, Near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments

Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"

Migratory laborers, near Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Shafter, California. Migratory laborers

Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act, near Stockton, California, November 17, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Stockton, California. November 17, 1938. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead Jones Act

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act, near Stockton, California, November 17, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Stockton, California. November 17, 1938. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead Jones Act

Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act, near Stockton, California, November 17, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
November 17, 1938. Near Stockton, California. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act

Purchase farm under Bankhead-Jones Act (Tenant Purchase), near Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Stockton, California. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchase farm under Bankhead-Jones Act (Tenant Purchase)

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Cotton pickers emptying sacks, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at eleven a.m. Stopped from further work for the day by rain

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

Rehabilitation family, near Visalia, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Visalia, California. Rehabilitation family. Farm operations changed from failure to success by following plan devised by Rural Rehabilitation supervisor

Sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, near Hartsville, South Carolina, 1938
Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field

Tobacco sharecropper's home near Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tobacco sharecropper's home near Douglas, Georgia

The "golden leaf, " already graded by the farmers, sorted and wrapped... Douglas, Georgia, 1938
Douglas, Georgia. The "golden leaf, " already graded by the farmers, sorted and wrapped in "tobacco sheets

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

Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches...tobacco auction, near Douglas, Georgia, 1938
Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction

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

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco... Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money

Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction

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

Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction]

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