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Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers, Lindsay, Tulare County, California, 1939

Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers, Lindsay, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. (Tulare County)

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, near Lordsburg, 1937

Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, near Lordsburg, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageMigration Collection: Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit... Coachella Valley, California, 1937

Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit... Coachella Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit and vegetable harvests. Coachella Valley, California

Background imageMigration Collection: Itinerant laborers riding the freight, West side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938

Itinerant laborers riding the freight, West side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Itinerant laborers riding the freight. West side of San Joaquin Valley, California

Background imageMigration Collection: Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Background imageMigration Collection: Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California

Background imageMigration Collection: Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Background imageMigration Collection: Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers, Lindsay, Tulare County, California, 1939

Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers, Lindsay, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. Tulare County

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Unsanitary privy in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields, Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California, 1937

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields, Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California, 1937
Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936

Background imageMigration Collection: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement

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

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

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Camp of single men by the roadside...come in to work in the pea fields, Nipomo, California, 1935

Camp of single men by the roadside...come in to work in the pea fields, Nipomo, California, 1935
Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the pea fields. Nipomo, California

Background imageMigration Collection: In a migratory camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

In a migratory camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In a migratory camp. California

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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 imageMigration Collection: Dust bowl refugee in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dust bowl refugee in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll"

Background imageMigration 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 imageMigration 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



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