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Forced Migrants Collection

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The Civil War in Paris: fugitive residents at the northern railway station, 1871. Creator: Unknown

The Civil War in Paris: fugitive residents at the northern railway station, 1871. Creator: Unknown
The Civil War in Paris: fugitive residents at the northern railway station, 1871. Civil conflict causing...the hasty departure of great numbers of visitors and residents

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Prussian barricade on the Rueil road: French peasants waiting to pass to their villages, 1871

Prussian barricade on the Rueil road: French peasants waiting to pass to their villages, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Prussian barricade on the Rueil road: French peasants waiting to pass to their villages, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. The villages of Rueil and Bougival, west of Mont Valérien

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: German children from Sweden, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

German children from Sweden, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
German children from Sweden, between c1915 and c1920

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Yarrow allotting relief to Armenian orphans, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Yarrow allotting relief to Armenian orphans, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Yarrow allotting relief to Armenian orphans, between c1915 and c1920. Shows missionary Ernest Alfred Yarrow (1876-1939), who served as head of the Near East Relief in Armenia with Armenian women

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Austin Dam Disaster, on bank of Sinnemahoning Creek, [Pennsylvania], 1911

Austin Dam Disaster, on bank of Sinnemahoning Creek, [Pennsylvania], 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Austin Dam Disaster, on bank of Sinnemahoning Creek, [Pennsylvania], 1911

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Louisiana Flood 1912-- refugees saved by gov't [i.e. government] boat, 1912

Louisiana Flood 1912-- refugees saved by gov't [i.e. government] boat, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Louisiana Flood 1912-- refugees saved by gov't [i.e. government] boat, 1912. Shows a boat with refugees at Vicksburg, Mississippi Mississippi River Flood of 1912

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Antwerp refugees fleeing to Holland, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service

Antwerp refugees fleeing to Holland, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Antwerp refugees fleeing to Holland, 1914. Shows refugees walking on railroad tracks on way to Holland during World War I

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Returning French Refugees, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service

Returning French Refugees, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Returning French Refugees, 1918 or 1919. Refugees returning to France after World War I

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Improvised homes in ruined France, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Improvised homes in ruined France, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Improvised homes in ruined France, between c1915 and 1918. Men, women and children, outside wood shacks during World War I in France

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Exchanging French - English prisoners, Singen, Switz. between c1915 and c1920

Exchanging French - English prisoners, Singen, Switz. between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Exchanging French - English prisoners, Singen, Switz. between c1915 and c1920. A prisoner exchange in Singen, Germany just north of the German/Swiss border during World War I

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Belgian orphans leaving Paris for country homes, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Belgian orphans leaving Paris for country homes, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Belgian orphans leaving Paris for country homes, between 1914 and c1915. Belgian children in Paris during World War I

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Refugees from Belgium in Paris, 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service

Refugees from Belgium in Paris, 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Refugees from Belgium in Paris, 1914, 1914. Belgian refugees during World War I in Paris, France

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The War in the Herzegovina: Refugees begging outside an hotel at Ragusa, 1876. Creator: Unknown

The War in the Herzegovina: Refugees begging outside an hotel at Ragusa, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The War in the Herzegovina: Refugees begging outside an hotel at Ragusa [Dubrovnik], 1876. The Delegations of Austria and Hungary were opened on Monday

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The War in the Herzegovina: sketches by our special artist, 1876. Creator: Unknown

The War in the Herzegovina: sketches by our special artist, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The War in the Herzegovina: sketches by our special artist, 1876....some ordinary incidents and habits of campaigning life during the irregular warfare of the past six months in those rugged

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Herzegovinian Refugees at Ragusa, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876. Creator: Unknown

Herzegovinian Refugees at Ragusa, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Herzegovinian Refugees at Ragusa, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876. In the interview which Baron Rodich had, a fortnight ago, at Ragusa [Dubrovnik], with the principal insurgent leaders

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Distributing Charitable Funds to the Herzegovinian Refugees at Ragusa...1876. Creator: Unknown

Distributing Charitable Funds to the Herzegovinian Refugees at Ragusa...1876. Creator: Unknown
Distributing Charitable Funds to the Herzegovinian Refugees at Ragusa [Dubrovnik], from a sketch by our special artist, 1876

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The Dark Hours of Italy; Women and children of Friuli and Carnia fleeing... 1917. Creator: Unknown

The Dark Hours of Italy; Women and children of Friuli and Carnia fleeing... 1917. Creator: Unknown
The Dark Hours of Italy; Women and children of Friuli and Carnia fleeing the horrors of the invasion, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The Dark Hours of Italy; Refugees from Friuli in a square in Brescia, 1917. Creator: Unknown

The Dark Hours of Italy; Refugees from Friuli in a square in Brescia, 1917. Creator: Unknown
The Dark Hours of Italy; Refugees from Friuli in a square in Brescia, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: On the Eastern Front; In Salonika, August 20, 1917: refugee camp... 1917. Creator: Unknown

On the Eastern Front; In Salonika, August 20, 1917: refugee camp... 1917. Creator: Unknown
On the Eastern Front; In Salonika, August 20, 1917: refugee camp on the Champ de Mars, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The refugees at Kah-Ding; A Cruise to Soo-chow, 1875. Creator: Lindley, Augustus Frederick

The refugees at Kah-Ding; A Cruise to Soo-chow, 1875. Creator: Lindley, Augustus Frederick
The refugees at Kah-Ding; A Cruise to Soo-chow, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The capture of a city by French troops, 1801. Creator: Dirk Langendijk

The capture of a city by French troops, 1801. Creator: Dirk Langendijk
The capture of a city by French troops, 1801. Sint-Janskerk in Arnhem was demolished in 1817

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); Deux petits enfants... 1916

Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); Deux petits enfants... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); Deux petits enfants attendant, au milieu des paquets, que leur maman ait retrouve le sien, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); une famille qui a... 1916

Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); une famille qui a... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); une famille qui a entasse tout ce qu'elle possede sur une brouette, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); une arrivee de... 1916

Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); une arrivee de... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les rapatries du Nord de la France a annemasse (Haute-Savoie); une arrivee de rapatries, par le tramway venant de Geneve qui fut leur derniere halte avant la France, 1916

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Devant l'envahisseur; Beaucoup, qui ne possedent qu'un chien comme bete de trait, 1914

Devant l'envahisseur; Beaucoup, qui ne possedent qu'un chien comme bete de trait, 1914. Creator: Unknown
Devant l'envahisseur; Beaucoup, qui ne possedent qu'un chien comme bete de trait, ont du abandonner derriere eux tous leurs biens, 1914

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Devant l'envahisseur; Les habitants des campagnes belges fuient sur les routes, 1914

Devant l'envahisseur; Les habitants des campagnes belges fuient sur les routes, 1914. Creator: Unknown
Devant l'envahisseur; Les habitants des campagnes belges, emportant ce qu'ils ont pu reunir dans la hate de la panique, fuient sur les routes, 1914

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: L'exode des paysans serbes.'. Creator: Unknown

L'exode des paysans serbes.'. Creator: Unknown
L'exode des paysans serbes'. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916"

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Aux Camps Serbes (Soldats et refugies civils) de Salonique; les cuisines des detchements... 1916

Aux Camps Serbes (Soldats et refugies civils) de Salonique; les cuisines des detchements... 1916
Aux Camps Serbes (Soldats et refugies civils) de Salonique; les cuisines des detchements serbes, venus de Monastir apres de dures fatigues et de longues privations, 1916

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Au debut de l'Invasion de la Serbie. --Scenes de l'exode des populations serbes devant... 1916

Au debut de l'Invasion de la Serbie. --Scenes de l'exode des populations serbes devant... 1916. Creator: R
Au debut de l'Invasion de la Serbie. --Scenes de l'exode des populations serbes devant les Bulgares, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Aux Camps Serbes (Soldats et refugies civils) de Salonique; Une Belge, elle aussi sans... 1916

Aux Camps Serbes (Soldats et refugies civils) de Salonique; Une Belge, elle aussi sans... 1916. Creator: Hubert Jacques
Aux Camps Serbes (Soldats et refugies civils) de Salonique; Une Belge, elle aussi sans foyer, distribue des secours aux petits enfants serbes, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: The Inhabitants leaving Balaclava, by Order of Lord Raglan, 1854. Creator: Unknown

The Inhabitants leaving Balaclava, by Order of Lord Raglan, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Inhabitants leaving Balaclava, by Order of Lord Raglan, 1854. Crimean War: expulsion of Greek civilians by the British Army

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Cotton pickers emptying sacks, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Woman in pea picker's camp, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Woman in pea picker's camp, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman in pea picker's camp. California. "I seen our corn dry up and blow over the fence back there in Oklahoma"

Background imageForced Migrants 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 Migrants Collection: Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, near Lordsburg, 1937

Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, near Lordsburg, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Refugee family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, near Holtville, California, 1937

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

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Drought refugees - penniless Oklahomans camped along highway, California, 1936

Drought refugees - penniless Oklahomans camped along highway, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California, 1937

Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Children of Oklahoma migrants, near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children of Oklahoma migrants, near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California

Background imageForced Migrants 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 Migrants Collection: Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936

Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Oklahoma refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma refugees. California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt, California, Kern County, 1936

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt, California, Kern County, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California, Kern County

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936

Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California, 1936
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migrant agricultural worker's family, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Camp of single men by the roadside...come in to work in the pea fields, Nipomo, California, 1935

Camp of single men by the roadside...come in to work in the pea fields, Nipomo, California, 1935
Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the pea fields. Nipomo, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: In a migratory camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

In a migratory camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In a migratory camp. California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migrant family in Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family in Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937

Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937
Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937
Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

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

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migratory workers 'kitchen' near Shafter, Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory workers "kitchen" near Shafter, Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory workers "kitchen" near Shafter. Kern County, California. Squatters camp

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Oklahomans in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahomans in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99, Kern County, California, 1938

One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99. Kern County, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Home of a migrant worker's family, Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of a migrant worker's family, Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of a migrant worker's family. Kern County, California. Lately came from Oklahoma

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Hooverville of Bakersfield, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Hooverville of Bakersfield, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp. Kern County, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Camp of migratory workers, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camp of migratory workers, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp of migratory agricultural workers. Imperial County, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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)

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field, nine miles from Calipatria, CA, 1937

Refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field, nine miles from Calipatria, CA, 1937
Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency

Background imageForced Migrants 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 imageForced Migrants 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 imageForced Migrants Collection: Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tennessee ex-farmers drifting around, looking for work in cotton

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California. 1936

Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio - self-resettlement in California. 1936
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Background imageForced Migrants 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 children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Shack in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Shack in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Shack in "Little Oklahoma, " California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937

One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Part of a roadside ranch camp, twelve tents in this group, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Part of a roadside ranch camp, twelve tents in this group, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of a roadside ranch camp. Twelve tents in this group. Owned by one of the large farmers who is opposed to Resettlement Administration's migrant camp. California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Migrant family in Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family in Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Arkansas family in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Arkansas family in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Arkansas family in California

Background imageForced Migrants Collection: Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California



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