Poverty Collection (#24)

Orange picker's camp, Strathmore, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Strathmore, California. Orange picker's camp. One dollar a week rental

Homes of Mexican field laborers, a street in Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A street in Brawley, Imperial Valley. Homes of Mexican field laborers. California

Pea pickers camp near San Jose, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea pickers camp near San Jose, California

"Company" cotton pickers camp, after picking season, Buttonwillow, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Buttonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers camp, after picking season. Some families remain for tag ends of picking and for pulling [cotton] bolls

Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to California in 1920 from Missouri. Father had job for eight years

Refugees from the 1936 drought, came to California for a new start, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Mexican family, Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California

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

Home of Mexican field laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

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)

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

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California

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

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

Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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

Homes of Mexican field workers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Homes of Mexican field workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Unemployed family... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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

Housing, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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

Housing for Mexican field laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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

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

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

The slums of Brawley, Homes of Mexican field workers, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The slums of Brawley. Homes of Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

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

Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Firebaugh, 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 Lange
Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent

Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Firebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers

Homes of Mexican field laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Homes of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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

Cotton pickers from Webber Falls, Oklahoma in Firebaugh, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Firebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers

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

Garbage disposal, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Toward Los Angeles, California. ['Next Time Try the Train - Relax - Southern Pacific']

No garbage disposal, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
No garbage disposal. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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

Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

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"

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

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

Speaker, migratory worker, Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization, Bakersfield, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California

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

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent

El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place... 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tens 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

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