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Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton camp near Exeter, California. The woman is a native of California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Background imagePoverty Collection: An abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

An abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
An abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta

Background imagePoverty Collection: Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton, 1936

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton

Background imagePoverty Collection: Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Background imagePoverty Collection: Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

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

Part of migrant family of five, encamped near Porterville, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of migrant family of five, encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves

Background imagePoverty Collection: An abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

An abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
An abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta

Background imagePoverty Collection: Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on outskirts of Porterville, California, 1936

Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on outskirts of Porterville, California, 1936
Mother of family of migrant fruit workers encamped on the outskirts of Porterville, California, waiting for work in the orange groves

Background imagePoverty Collection: Home of a family of native Californians, migratory workers, Near Porterville, California, 1936

Home of a family of native Californians, migratory workers, Near Porterville, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of a family of native Californians, migratory workers. Near Porterville, California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each family has to build its own shack; they pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent, including water

Background imagePoverty Collection: Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water

Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi. Hoers in groups of two hundred or more are hauled over daily from Greenville

Background imagePoverty Collection: Housing for cotton pickers, South Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Housing for cotton pickers, South Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing for cotton pickers. South Texas

Background imagePoverty Collection: Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Background imagePoverty Collection: Loading cotton after weighing, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Loading cotton after weighing, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading cotton after weighing. San Joaquin Valley, California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Destitute farm labor families, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Destitute farm labor families, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm, Tulare County, California, 1938

Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm. Ten families are now established on this 500 acre ranch to be operated as a unit. (Farm Security Administration) Tulare County, California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Home of Mississippi tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of Mississippi tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of Mississippi tenant farmer

Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton pickers camp near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton pickers camp near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton pickers camp near Robstown, Texas

Background imagePoverty Collection: Part of a family of ten children who live and farm in the area, Arkansas, 1937

Part of a family of ten children who live and farm in the area, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of a family of ten children who live and farm in the area which was flooded in the spring of 1937. They escaped in a boat

Background imagePoverty Collection: Wife of tractor driver on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Wife of tractor driver on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of tractor driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Truck loads of cotton hoers going from Memphis, Tennessee into Arkansas, 1937

Truck loads of cotton hoers going from Memphis, Tennessee into Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Truck loads of cotton hoers going from Memphis, Tennessee into Arkansas

Background imagePoverty Collection: Son of an illiterate sharecropper, near Earle, Arkansas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Son of an illiterate sharecropper, near Earle, Arkansas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Son of an illiterate sharecropper. He wants a high school education. Near Earle, Arkansas

Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 am for a day's work on the plantations, Mississippi, 1937

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 am for a day's work on the plantations, Mississippi, 1937
Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches

Background imagePoverty Collection: Mexican field hand, New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican field hand, New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican field hand. New Mexico

Background imagePoverty Collection: Sharecropper's cabin, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Sharecropper's cabin, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper's cabin. Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton hoer, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton hoer, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton hoer. Coahoma County, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Unemployment benefits aid begins, State Employment Service office, San Francisco, California, 1938

Unemployment benefits aid begins, State Employment Service office, San Francisco, California, 1938
Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Sharecropper eating near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Sharecropper eating near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper eating near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Migrant pea pickers, near Westley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant pea pickers, near Westley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers on the edge of the field. They wait their turn for weighing. Near Westley, California

Background imagePoverty Collection: Moving day on the Delta cotton lands, Arkansas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Moving day on the Delta cotton lands, Arkansas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Moving day on the Delta cotton lands. Arkansas

Background imagePoverty Collection: One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937

One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton sharecropper, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton sharecropper, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi. [General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to Ulysses S

Background imagePoverty Collection: Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

Background imagePoverty Collection: Cotton sharecropper, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton sharecropper, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi. [General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to Ulysses S

Background imagePoverty Collection: The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa

Background imagePoverty Collection: Wife of Mississippi sharecropper, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Wife of Mississippi sharecropper, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of Mississippi sharecropper

Background imagePoverty Collection: A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937

A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family of nine who are stranded and penniless in New Mexico

Background imagePoverty Collection: Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health

Background imagePoverty Collection: Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936

Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money

Background imagePoverty Collection: Sharecropper cabin, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Sharecropper cabin, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper cabin. Coahoma County, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico

Background imagePoverty Collection: This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937

This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation but works for wages of one dollar a day. He estimated that he worked about 190 days during 1936. Near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: Native Texan farmer on relief, Goodliet, Hardeman County, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Native Texan farmer on relief, Goodliet, Hardeman County, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Native Texan farmer on relief. Goodliet, Hardeman County, Texas. "Tractored out" in late 1937. Now living in town, and on the verge of relief. Wife and two children

Background imagePoverty Collection: These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937

These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937

These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Background imagePoverty Collection: These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937

These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi



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