Forced Displacement Collection (page 8)

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration)

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration)

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

Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Transient potato workers camping along the highway, Near Shafter, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California

Unemployed family... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, 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

Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent

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

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen... CA, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

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

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

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

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

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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

Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place... 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place in order to eke out a living following the crops of California

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

Children of migrant agricultural workers in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migrant agricultural workers in California

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mother in California who with her family will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief... 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A mother in California who with her husband and her two children will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration

Drought refugees, camp along the roadside, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp along the roadside. Drought refugees. Imperial County, California

Drought refugees in California near Holtville, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California near Holtville

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

Drought refugee from Oklahoma in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee from Oklahoma in California

Oklahoma drought refugee, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This is a hard way to serve the Lord. Oklahoma drought refugee, California

Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937
A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker. Nipomo, California

Arkansas mother, Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937
A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker. Nipomo, California

Arkansas mother, now a rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Arkansas mother, now a rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Arkansas mother, now a rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Citrus workers in winter quarters, Strathmore, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Strathmore, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters

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