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More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff... Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea LangeNapa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms
Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeEx-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California
Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeUnemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California
Transient potato workers camping along the highway, Near Shafter, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea LangeTransient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California
Unemployed family... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeUnemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California
Housing, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea LangeHousing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeDrought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California
Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California, Imperial ValleryOklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California. Outskirts of Calipatria. Imperial Valley
The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeThe Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California
Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea LangeFirebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers
Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeWoman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen... CA, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeYoung Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley
Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California, Imperial Valley, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeYoung Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California. Imperial Valley
Garbage disposal, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea LangeGarbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeToward Los Angeles, California. ['Next Time Try the Train - Relax - Southern Pacific']
No garbage disposal, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea LangeNo garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeOklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp
Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeOklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine"
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeOklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with his wife and four children
Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea LangeSelf-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful. Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeOklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children
Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeOklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California
Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeTexas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent
Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place... 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeTens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place in order to eke out a living following the crops of California
Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeTypical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California
Children of migrant agricultural workers in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeChildren of migrant agricultural workers in California
The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeThe incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County, California
Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeDust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"
Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp, Westley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea LangeWestley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season
Laundry facilities at Westley camp for migratory labor, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea LangeLaundry facilities at Westley camp for migratory labor. San Joaquin Valley, California
Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeDrought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California
Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeEighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant
Cotton pickers emptying sacks, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea LangeKern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at eleven a.m. Stopped from further work for the day by rain
Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeWaiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma
Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeSquatter 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
A mother in California who with her family will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief... 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeA 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 LangeCamp along the roadside. Drought refugees. Imperial County, California
Drought refugees in California near Holtville, 1937. Creator: Dorothea LangeDrought refugees in California near Holtville