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Great Depression Collection (page 7)

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Aveue D, New York City, 1936

Tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Aveue D, New York City, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the rear windows, tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Aveue D, New York City. The Solomon family are on the accepted list for resettlement at Hightstown, New Jersey

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: Mission District firetrap, San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mission District firetrap, San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mission District firetrap. San Francisco, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Backyard, North Beach District (Italians), San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Backyard, North Beach District (Italians), San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Backyard. North Beach District (Italians). San Francisco, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Street and homes in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma, " California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Cotton sharecropper family, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton sharecropper family, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas, 1936

Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Mexican children playing in ditch, near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month, Macon County, Georgia, 1937

Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month, Macon County, Georgia, 1937
Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowners. Macon County, Georgia

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936 Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime, near Radstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime, near Radstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Cotton pickers lunchtime, near Corpus Christi, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton pickers lunchtime, near Corpus Christi, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton pickers lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Turpentine camp, Godwinsville, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Turpentine camp, Godwinsville, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine camp. Godwinsville, Georgia

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Note on industrialization of the South, Meridian, Mississippi, 1936 Creator: Dorothea Lange

Note on industrialization of the South, Meridian, Mississippi, 1936 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Note on industrialization of the South. Meridian, Mississippi. [Meridian Welcomes You! Make This Your Future Home; Free Factory Sites - Tax Exemption for New Industries; Inquire at Mayor's Office

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Tenant Purchase applicants, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tenant Purchase applicants, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tenant Purchase applicants. Stockton, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Mexican migratory citrus worker's family, near Strathmore, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican migratory citrus worker's family, near Strathmore, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Strathmore, California. Mexican migratory citrus worker's family. Camped here

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Barn of FSA tenant purchase client, near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Barn of FSA tenant purchase client, near Manteca, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Manteca, California. Barn of Farm Security Administration (FSA) tenant purchase client

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Inside of one-room shack of Rural Rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938

Inside of one-room shack of Rural Rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Inside of one-room shack of Rural Rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Cowboy coming in from the hills, San Luis Obispo County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cowboy coming in from the hills, San Luis Obispo County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
San Luis Obispo County, California. Cowboy coming in from the hills

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Turpentine still, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Turpentine still, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine still. Georgia

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: During the cotton strike, a striking picker applies for an emergency food grant, Shafter, CA, 1938

During the cotton strike, a striking picker applies for an emergency food grant, Shafter, CA, 1938
During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant. Shafter, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma, 1938

Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: What was once the 'Big House' is now occupied by a family, Greene County, Georgia, 1937

What was once the "Big House" is now occupied by a family, Greene County, Georgia, 1937
What was once the "Big House" is now occupied by a family of white tenants who live in part of the crumbling mansion and farm a small piece of the nearby eroding fields

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: The landowner's daughter hoes cotton on a south Georgia farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The landowner's daughter hoes cotton on a south Georgia farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The landowner's daughter hoes cotton on a south Georgia farm

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Farmer's daughter in the fields, farm in Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farmer's daughter in the fields, farm in Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmer's daughter in the fields. Farm in Georgia

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Clarence Weems, a young co-operator on the farm. He remembers the evictions in Arkansas, for his father was beaten and disappeared

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Abandoned land, exhausted soil, Carter County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Abandoned land, exhausted soil, Carter County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carter County, Oklahoma. Abandoned land, exhausted soil

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Man in front of post office, Carey, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Man in front of post office, Carey, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Man in front of post office. Carey, Texas. This town is fast becoming a ghost town because of mechanization of cotton and displacement of tenant farmers

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Labor Temple, Tucson, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Labor Temple, Tucson, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Labor Temple. Tucson, Arizona

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line, Yuma, Arizona, 1937

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line, Yuma, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have their baggage inspected for plant pests. Yuma, Arizona

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: Irrigation ditch alongside the road, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Irrigation ditch alongside the road, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation ditch alongside the road. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Employment agency, San Francisco, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Employment agency, San Francisco, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Employment agency. San Francisco

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Cradling wheat near Christianburg, Virginia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cradling wheat near Christianburg, Virginia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cradling wheat near Christianburg, Virginia

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 imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: One side of the monument erected to race prejudice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1936

One side of the monument erected to race prejudice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana. [United States troops took over the state government

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: Mexican field laborers houses, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican field laborers houses, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican field laborers houses. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageGreat Depression Collection: Mission District, San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mission District, San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mission District. San Francisco, California

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression Collection: Main street of town showing irrigation ditch, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Main street of town showing irrigation ditch, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Main street of town. Shows irrigation ditch. Escalante, Utah

Background imageGreat Depression 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 imageGreat Depression 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



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