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Forced Displacement Collection (page 5)

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each family has to build its own shack; they pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent, including water

Background imageForced Displacement Collection: Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water

Background imageForced Displacement Collection: Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Background imageForced Displacement Collection: Cotton pickers camp near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton pickers camp near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton pickers camp near Robstown, Texas

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

Background imageForced Displacement Collection: The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936

Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Man living on 'Scratch Hill' outside Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "I'm going west because this country's through, there isn't anything here for anyone

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Car trouble on west side, Highway no33, San Joaquin Valley, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Car trouble on west side, Highway no33, San Joaquin Valley, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Car trouble on west side, Highway no. 33. In San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer, now with wife, he follows the fruit

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi... 1937

Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi... 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Camp of migratory fruit pickers, Farmington, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camp of migratory fruit pickers, Farmington, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp of migratory fruit pickers. Farmington, California

Background imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement 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 imageForced Displacement Collection: Play street for children, Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Play street for children, Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood

Background imageForced Displacement 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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