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Homestead Collection

Background imageHomestead Collection: Mahantango Valley Farm, late 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Mahantango Valley Farm, late 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Mahantango Valley Farm, late 19th century

Background imageHomestead Collection: A Frolic at the Old Homestead, 1887. Creator: John Rogers

A Frolic at the Old Homestead, 1887. Creator: John Rogers
A Frolic at the Old Homestead, 1887

Background imageHomestead Collection: Road to Bostrom's, Ormond, between 1880 and 1897. Creator: William H. Jackson

Road to Bostrom's, Ormond, between 1880 and 1897. Creator: William H. Jackson
Road to Bostrom's, Ormond, between 1880 and 1897

Background imageHomestead Collection: Outside a homestead, 1879-1890. Creator: Holger Moller

Outside a homestead, 1879-1890. Creator: Holger Moller
Outside a homestead, 1879-1890

Background imageHomestead Collection: Cotton sharecropper farm, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton sharecropper farm, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton sharecropper farm, Texas

Background imageHomestead Collection: One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937

One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation. Hillhouse, Mississippi. [Porch with mosquito screens]

Background imageHomestead Collection: Cabins in the corn, South Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cabins in the corn, South Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins in the corn. South Georgia

Background imageHomestead Collection: San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageHomestead Collection: San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars

Background imageHomestead Collection: San Fernando homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

San Fernando homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
San Fernando homesteads, California

Background imageHomestead Collection: San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes all occupied, each with nearly an acre land. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California. Soil Conservation has one of its principal stations here

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: Oklahomans trying to make a new start in California, Near Los Angeles, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahomans trying to make a new start in California, Near Los Angeles, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans trying to make a new start in California. Near Los Angeles

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageHomestead Collection: Children at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: Widtsoe farm home, Resettlement Administration purchase, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Widtsoe farm home, Resettlement Administration purchase, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Widtsoe farm home. Resettlement Administration purchase. Utah

Background imageHomestead Collection: A home after the Utah pattern, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

A home after the Utah pattern, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A home after the Utah pattern. Escalante, Utah

Background imageHomestead Collection: Type home, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Type home, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Type home. Escalante, Utah

Background imageHomestead Collection: Typical home, still occupied, Widtsoe, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Typical home, still occupied, Widtsoe, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Typical home, still occupied. Widtsoe, Utah

Background imageHomestead Collection: Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County), California. This is an Farm Security Administration housing project for low income farm workers

Background imageHomestead Collection: Home of Mississippi tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of Mississippi tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of Mississippi tenant farmer

Background imageHomestead Collection: Sharecropper's cabin, cotton and corn, near Jackson, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Sharecropper's cabin, cotton and corn, near Jackson, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper's cabin, cotton and corn, near Jackson, Mississippi

Background imageHomestead Collection: House of ex-tenant farmer now on reliefEllis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

House of ex-tenant farmer now on reliefEllis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
House of ex-tenant farmer now on relief. Ellis County, Texas

Background imageHomestead Collection: Home of white tenant farmer family, Newport, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of white tenant farmer family, Newport, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of white tenant farmer family. Newport, Oklahoma

Background imageHomestead Collection: Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia

Background imageHomestead 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 imageHomestead Collection: Homegrown food is homegrown wealth, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Homegrown food is homegrown wealth, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Homegrown food is homegrown health. Exercise, fresh air, sunshine, as well as good things to eat, mean good health for the whole family. Many hands are making light work of this job

Background imageHomestead Collection: Homegrown food is homegrown wealth, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Homegrown food is homegrown wealth, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Homegrown food is homegrown wealth. The foresighted farmer makes a garden plan showing what to plant, when to plant, and when to make second plantings

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936

El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936

El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageHomestead Collection: Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget

Background imageHomestead Collection: Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget

Background imageHomestead Collection: Family from Arkansas with large vegetable garden and small house, Tulare County, California, 1938

Family from Arkansas with large vegetable garden and small house, Tulare County, California, 1938
This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollars when they arrived in California. There are eleven children in family. They bought a forty acre piece of land on which they still owe one thousand

Background imageHomestead Collection: Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural rehabilitation. Tulare County, California. Arkansas mother come to California for a new start



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