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Background imageForced Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration 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

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma. Eight children in the family. Note the housing. Near Casa Grande project, Arizona

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Background photo for Hightstown project, Bronx, New York, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Background photo for Hightstown project, Bronx, New York, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bronx, New York. Background photo for Hightstown project. Many of the future Hightstown settlers are now living in the Bronx district. This is the street on which Mr

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Squatter camp, Patterson, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Squatter camp, Patterson, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Patterson, California. Squatter camp

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Migrants tents...the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939

Migrants tents...the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific. Near Fresno, California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939
Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents a week. California. [Signs: Garretts snuff, Model smoking tobacco, Eastside beer]

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939
Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents per week. Calipatria, Imperial County

Background imageForced Migration Collection: One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Migrants tents...along the right of way of the southern pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939

Migrants tents...along the right of way of the southern pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the southern pacific. Near Fresno, California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Migratory families at 7 a.m. near Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory families at 7 a.m. near Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory families at 7 a.m. near Imperial Valley, California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest, near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest, near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939
Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of adjoining grocery

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Industrialized agricultural, near Niland, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Industrialized agricultural, near Niland, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Niland, Imperial Valley, California. Industrialized agricultural. New housing on large ranch for agricultural workers who live and work on ranch the year round

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Child welfare program, Resettlement Administration Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935

Child welfare program, Resettlement Administration Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935
Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part of the child welfare program at the Resettlement Administration camp. California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Utility unit and camp sites, Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Utility unit and camp sites, Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Marysville camp for migrants. Resettlement Administration. Shows utility unit and camp sites (toilets, showers, laundry). California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Family...from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car... Arizona, 1937

Family...from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car... Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to try to find work in the California harvests. Between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Family...from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car... Arizona, 1937

Family...from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car... Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of nine from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car on road between Phoenix and Yuma, Arizona. On their way to try to find work in the California harvests

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Destitute pea pickers in California, mother of seven children, Nipomo, California, 1936

Destitute pea pickers in California, mother of seven children, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants, Gridley, California, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Drought refugees from Colorado, outskirts of San Bernardino, California. 1935

Drought refugees from Colorado, outskirts of San Bernardino, California. 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. A new home in California. Drought refugees from Colorado now making a new start in California. Living in Cotton Gardens

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Agricultural laborers, winter quarters of migrants, near Brentwood, California, 1938

Agricultural laborers, winter quarters of migrants, near Brentwood, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Brentwood, California. Winter quarters of migrants. Agricultural laborers

Background imageForced Migration Collection: Migrants carry this sect to California, Northern Arkansas on U.S. 62, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrants carry this sect to California, Northern Arkansas on U.S. 62, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Northern Arkansas on U.S. 62. Migrants carry this sect to California. [Sign: Assembly of God']



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