Forced Migration Collection (page 9)

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

California migratory farm laborers, outskirts of Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California migratory farm laborers, drought refugees from Oklahoma, camped in the brush on the river bottom with no water or sanitation. On the outskirts of Brawley. Imperial Valley, California

On the highway, Riverside County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the highway. Riverside County, California. ['The Cowboy's Independent Service Station - Marion Cox mgr.']

Early stage in the history of the farm experiment, Mineral King Ranch, Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Early stage in the history of the farm experiment on the old Mineral King Ranch. These old buildings in which the ten cooperating families now live will be replaced by modern separate homes

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways

Mother and child of flood refugee family, near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mother and child of flood refugee family, near Memphis, Texas

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

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract... Shafter migrant camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers

Migrant potato pickers pitching... Near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without water and sanitary conditions. Near Shafter, California

Shafter camp for migrant workers (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Shafter camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Tent platforms are supplied. Workers supply their own tents

Tent housing a family, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tent housing a family of four who will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. Imperial County, California

Billboard along U.S. 99...three destitute families...Kern County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California

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

Billboard along U.S. 99...three destitute families...Kern County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California. [Advertisement: Next Time Try the Train - Travel While You Sleep - Southern Pacific']

Billboard along U.S. 99...three destitute families...Kern County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California. [Advertisement: Next Time Try the Train - Travel While You Sleep - Southern Pacific']

Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families... Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California. [Advertisement: Next Time Try the Train - Travel While You Sleep - Southern Pacific']

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

Industrialized agriculture, from Texas farmer to migratory worker in California, Kern County, 1938
Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in California. Kern County

Migrant cotton picker's child, Shafter Camp for migrants, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Hymn singing at meeting of Mothers Club in Arvin migrant camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hymn singing at meeting of Mothers Club in Arvin migrant camp. California. [Hymn book: Vocal Gems edited by R. E. Winsett]

Meeting of the Mothers Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, FSA camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Meeting of the Mothers Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp in California, opens with prayer. [Note Singer treadle sewing machine]

The last frontier, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no sanitation for the families who camp here during the potato harvesting season. When the season is over they move

During the cotton strike, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

Assembly of God in tent by the roadside, Cache County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Assembly of God in tent by the roadside, Cache County, Oklahoma. Twenty- nine attend this church. Eighteen families of displaced laborers and tenants encamp in this group along the highway

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