Forced Migration Collection (page 3)

Mexican children playing in ditch, near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican children playing in ditch which runs through company cotton camp near Corcoran, California

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour

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

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

Kern County camp for migrants, fifteen miles out of Bakersfield, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County camp for migrants. Planned and erected by the Resettlement Administration fifteen miles out of Bakersfield, California. Partially occupied because there is not any work in the fields

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

Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers camp near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers camp near Holtville, California

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

Drought refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California

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

Two families, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California. Heading for the pea harvest but stalled because they have no money to buy a trailer's

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp, Calipatria (vicinity), California. 1937
Calipatria (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks"

String of five housecars, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
String of five housecars. This group represents good conditions among pea pickers. California

Pea picker's home, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea picker's home. The condition of these people warrant resettlement camps for migrant agricultural workers. Nipomo, California

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

Ditch bank camp for migrant agricultural workers, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ditch bank camp for migrant agricultural workers. California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Missouri family of five on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California

Drought refugees in California migrant camp, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California migrant camp

Families from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California
Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

One pea picker's home, one-half mile off Highway 101 at Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One pea picker's home. One-half mile off Highway 101 at Nipomo, California

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Pea pickers in California, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers in California. "Mam, I've picked peas from Calipatria to Ukiah. This life is simplicity boiled down." California

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp. California

Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

Aged woman with three of her twenty-two grandchildren, Kern county migrant camp, California, 1936
Aged woman with three of her twenty-two grandchildren, Kern county migrant camp, California. [Sign: Warning! No Visitors. By Order of Health Officer']

Aged woman from Oklahoma, Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Water supply, Migratory camp for cotton pickers, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Water supply. Migratory camp for cotton pickers. San Joaquin Valley, California. American River camp

Arkansas family washing dishes, seven months in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Arkansas family. Seven months in California. Washing dishes

Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves

View of Kern migrant camp...sanitary units, CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
View of Kern migrant camp showing one of three sanitary units. California

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