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Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Kern County, California, 1939

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Debris left out on the flats where squatters camp stood during work season, Kern County, 1939

Debris left out on the flats where squatters camp stood during work season, Kern County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County. Debris left out on the flats where squatters camp stood during work season. These are common sights after the migrants have left

Background imageShantytown Collection: Potato harvesters, Kern County, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Potato harvesters, Kern County, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest, Nipomo, California

Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest, Nipomo, California
Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest. Nipomo, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along the road, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along the road, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along the road. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants, Marysville, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants, Marysville, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants. Marysville, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: Washing facilities for families in migratory pea pickers camp, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Washing facilities for families in migratory pea pickers camp, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Washing facilities for families in migratory pea pickers camp. Imperial Valley, California. Mostly Oklahomans and Texans

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Blue Monday in a California migratory camp, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Blue Monday in a California migratory camp, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Blue Monday in a California migratory camp

Background imageShantytown Collection: From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939

From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri, eight years in California working in lemons "It's easy for us because we haven't got a bunch of kids to get drug around"

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant camp, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939

From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri, eight years in California working in lemons "It's easy for us because we haven't got a bunch of kids to get drug around"

Background imageShantytown Collection: From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939

From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri, eight years in California working in lemons "It's easy for us because we haven't got a bunch of kids to get drug around"

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Migratory workers in winter quarters, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory workers in winter quarters, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Migratory workers in winter quarters

Background imageShantytown Collection: Homes of Mexican field laborers, a street in Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935

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

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

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: 'Company' cotton pickers camp, after picking season, Buttonwillow, California, 1939

"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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Kern County, California, 1939

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

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

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

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

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas... near Holtville, California, 1937

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Transient potato workers camping along the highway, Near Shafter, California, 1935

Transient potato workers camping along the highway, Near Shafter, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California

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

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Unemployed family... near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Housing for Mexican field laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935

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

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: The slums of Brawley, Homes of Mexican field workers, Imperial Valley, California, 1935

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

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent

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

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

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

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 imageShantytown Collection: Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1935

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

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon

Background imageShantytown Collection: Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place... 1937

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

Background imageShantytown Collection: The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt, Imperial County, California, 1937

The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The incessant struggle for cleanliness amid dust and dirt. Imperial County, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageShantytown 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 imageShantytown Collection: Refugee families encamped near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Refugee families encamped near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugee families encamped near Holtville, California

Background imageShantytown Collection: Drought refugees in California near Holtville, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees in California near Holtville, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California near Holtville



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