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Background imageMigrant Collection: Hop-pickers on the Road - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Creator: Hablot Knight Browne

Hop-pickers on the Road - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Creator: Hablot Knight Browne
Hop-pickers on the Road - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Seasonal farm workers. Here meet together the respectable poor and the disreputable poor, the honest labourer and the thief (doing honest work now)

Background imageMigrant Collection: Michael Benedicks (1768-1845), married to 1. Fanny Isak (1775-1802), 2. Henriette... 1824

Michael Benedicks (1768-1845), married to 1. Fanny Isak (1775-1802), 2. Henriette... 1824. Creator: Jakob Axel Gillberg
Michael Benedicks (1768-1845), married to 1. Fanny Isak (1775-1802), 2. Henriette von Halle (1786-1855), 1824

Background imageMigrant Collection: Michael Benedicks (1768-1845), married to 1. Fanny Isak (1775-1802), 2. Henriette... 1824

Michael Benedicks (1768-1845), married to 1. Fanny Isak (1775-1802), 2. Henriette... 1824. Creator: Jakob Axel Gillberg
Michael Benedicks (1768-1845), married to 1. Fanny Isak (1775-1802), 2. Henriette von Halle (1786-1855), 1824

Background imageMigrant Collection: The Revolution in Sicily - the people relanding with their chattels at Messina... 1860

The Revolution in Sicily - the people relanding with their chattels at Messina... 1860
The Revolution in Sicily - the people relanding with their chattels at Messina, after the Battle of Melazzo, from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939. Creator: Unknown

Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939. Creator: Unknown
Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migratory cotton workers, 1939. Creator: Unknown

Migratory cotton workers, 1939. Creator: Unknown
Migratory cotton workers, 1939

Background imageMigrant Collection: In Search of a New Home - A Scene in the Far West, 1891. Creator: John Charlton

In Search of a New Home - A Scene in the Far West, 1891. Creator: John Charlton
In Search of a New Home - A Scene in the Far West, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Background imageMigrant Collection: The Emigration of the Russian Jews - Sketches on board the Guion Liner 'Wisconsin', 1891

The Emigration of the Russian Jews - Sketches on board the Guion Liner "Wisconsin", 1891. Creator: Unknown
The Emigration of the Russian Jews - Sketches on board the Guion Liner "Wisconsin", The Rush for the First Meal, 1891. From "The Graphic

Background imageMigrant Collection: The Emigration of the Russian Jews - Sketches on board the Guion Liner 'Wisconsin', 1891

The Emigration of the Russian Jews - Sketches on board the Guion Liner "Wisconsin", 1891. Creator: Unknown
The Emigration of the Russian Jews - Sketches on board the Guion Liner "Wisconsin", off Queenstown on Sunday Morning - The Ruling Passion, 1891. From "The Graphic

Background imageMigrant Collection: The Emigration of the Russian Jews - The Doctor Examining Steerage Passengers, 1891

The Emigration of the Russian Jews - The Doctor Examining Steerage Passengers, 1891. Creator: Unknown
The Emigration of the Russian Jews - The Doctor Examining Steerage Passengers before their Departure from Liverpool on board the Guion Liner "Wisconsin" in the Mersey, 1891

Background imageMigrant Collection: Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. This is a region from which hundreds of farm families have fled to the west. ['Loans - We Buy & Sell Clothing Luggage Guns etc - Used Clothing']

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California, 1936

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type while driving thirty-five miles between 9:00 and 9

Background imageMigrant Collection: Drought refugees - penniless Oklahomans camped along highway, California, 1936

Drought refugees - penniless Oklahomans camped along highway, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California, 1937

Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Children of Oklahoma migrants, near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children of Oklahoma migrants, near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mother and child, 1936

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mother and child, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mother and child

Background imageMigrant Collection: Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the members, California, 1936

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the members, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the members. California

Background imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant Collection: On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahoma refugees, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageMigrant Collection: Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt, California, Kern County, 1936

Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt, California, Kern County, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grandmother from Oklahoma with grandson, working on quilt. California, Kern County

Background imageMigrant 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. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm

Background imageMigrant Collection: Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migrant agricultural worker's family, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant agricultural worker's family, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Little Oklahoma, the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato... CA, 1936

Little Oklahoma, the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Little Oklahoma, the community that grew out of the need for help in the potato and cotton fields. California

Background imageMigrant Collection: House in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

House in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
House in "Little Oklahoma, " California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937

Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937
Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California

Background imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant 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
Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in California, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways

Background imageMigrant Collection: Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California, 1936

Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers concentration camp in 1933 was in Corcoran

Background imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant Collection: Camp bulletin board in Shafter camp for migratory workers, FSA camp, California, 1938

Camp bulletin board in Shafter camp for migratory workers, FSA camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp bulletin board in Shafter camp for migratory workers, Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp, California. This notice is a statement of self-determined policy drawn up by the camp committee of

Background imageMigrant Collection: One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99, Kern County, California, 1938

One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99. Kern County, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Campers bulletin board, Shafter camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Campers bulletin board, Shafter camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Campers bulletin board near entrance of Shafter camp for migrant workers. California

Background imageMigrant Collection: End of the Halloween party, Shafter migrant camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

End of the Halloween party, Shafter migrant camp, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
End of the Halloween party. Shafter migrant camp. California

Background imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant Collection: Freightcar converted into home in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Freightcar converted into home in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Freightcar converted into home in "Little Oklahoma, " California

Background imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant Collection: Home in 'Little Oklahoma', California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home in "Little Oklahoma", California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home in "Little Oklahoma, " a community that has grown out of migrant potato and cotton workers. California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Housing for migratory workers in cotton, five miles north of Corcoran, California, 1936

Housing for migratory workers in cotton, five miles north of Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing for migratory workers in cotton, five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers concentration camp in 1933 was at Corcoran camp

Background imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant 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 imageMigrant Collection: Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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



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