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Hooverville Collection

Background imageHooverville Collection: Home of a dust bowl refugee in California, Imperial County, California, 1937

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

Background imageHooverville 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
Near Fresno, California. Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific. [Signs: Railroad Crossing, End of Double Track']

Background imageHooverville Collection: Citrus workers in winter quarters, near Lindsay, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Citrus workers in winter quarters, near Lindsay, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Lindsay, California. Citrus workers in winter quarters

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

Family of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Background imageHooverville Collection: Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests

Background imageHooverville Collection: Refugee family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, near Holtville, California, 1937

Refugee family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugee family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped in the brush in a river bottom near Holtville, California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Migrants tents...along the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, CA, 1939

Migrants tents...along the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Fresno, California. Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific. [Sign: Railroad Crossing']

Background imageHooverville Collection: Migrants tents...along the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, CA, 1939

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Migrants winter quarters, Farmersville, Tulare County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrants winter quarters, Farmersville, Tulare County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmersville, Tulare County. Migrants winter quarters

Background imageHooverville Collection: Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Background imageHooverville Collection: Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Background imageHooverville Collection: Camps of migrant pea workers, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camps of migrant pea workers, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camps of migrant pea workers. California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Camps of migrant pea workers, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camps of migrant pea workers, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camps of migrant pea workers. California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Migrant family in Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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 Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Home of a dust bowl refugee in California, Imperial County, California, 1937

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

Background imageHooverville 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 workers. Imperial County, California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937
Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do

Background imageHooverville Collection: Oklahomans in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahomans in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Hooverville of Bakersfield, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Hooverville of Bakersfield, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available

Background imageHooverville Collection: FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp

Background imageHooverville Collection: Winter quarters, migratory agricultural workers, beside the highway, Tulare County, 1939

Winter quarters, migratory agricultural workers, beside the highway, Tulare County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tulare County. Winter quarters, migratory agricultural workers. Beside the highway. Tulare County, California

Background imageHooverville Collection: Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp. Kern County, California

Background imageHooverville 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 imageHooverville 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 imageHooverville 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 imageHooverville 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

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 imageHooverville Collection: 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, 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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Migrant family in Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Arkansas family in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Kern County camp for migrants, fifteen miles out of Bakersfield, California, 1936

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers camp near Holtville, California, 1937

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Drought refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Drought refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: String of five housecars, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Pea picker's home, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Refugee families near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Refugee families near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugee families near Holtville, California

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

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

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

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Families from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

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

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

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936

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

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Water supply, Migratory camp for cotton pickers, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Arkansas family washing dishes, seven months in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageHooverville Collection: Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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



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