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Background imageMigrant Collection: Potato field and pickers near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Potato field and pickers near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Potato field and pickers near Shafter, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Potato pickers, near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Potato pickers, near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Shafter, California. Potatoes are dug by machines and strewn on the ground as the digger goes down the rows. The picker puts the potatoes into sacks suspended from their waist between their

Background imageMigrant Collection: Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers camp near Shafter, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway, U.S. 99, 1937

Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway, U.S. 99, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99. 1937

Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99. 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

Background imageMigrant Collection: Halloween party at Shafter Camp for migrant agricultural workers, California, 1938

Halloween party at Shafter Camp for migrant agricultural workers, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Halloween party at Shafter Camp for migrant agricultural workers. California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers camp. Kern County, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers camp. Kern County, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: U.S. 99. Near Tulare, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

U.S. 99. Near Tulare, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
U.S. 99. Near Tulare, California. Entered California fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke-down. "Want to get back to Missouri if they can ever get the money."

Background imageMigrant Collection: Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California, 1935

Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: This family...about to be returned to Oklahoma...Neideffer Camp, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

This family...about to be returned to Oklahoma...Neideffer Camp, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This family without food and work about to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. They have lost a baby as a result of exposure during the winter

Background imageMigrant Collection: Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California, 1937

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Resettled at Bosque Farms project - family of four from Taos Junction, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resettled at Bosque Farms project - family of four from Taos Junction, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled at Bosque Farms project. Family of four from Taos Junction shows temporary dwelling

Background imageMigrant Collection: Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California, 1937

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Dispossessed Arkansas farmers, Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers, Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp, Imperial County, California, 1937

Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California, Imperial Vallery

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California, Imperial Vallery
Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California. Outskirts of Calipatria. Imperial Valley

Background imageMigrant Collection: The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937

The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen... CA, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen... CA, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

Background imageMigrant Collection: Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California, Imperial Valley, 1937

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley

Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine"

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with his wife and four children

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Background imageMigrant Collection: Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Background imageMigrant Collection: Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

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"

Background imageMigrant Collection: Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp, Westley, California, 1938

Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp, Westley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season

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

Background imageMigrant Collection: Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Background imageMigrant Collection: Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Background imageMigrant Collection: Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Background imageMigrant Collection: A mother in California who with her family will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief... 1937

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

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

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



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