Texas United States Of America Collection

Texas City Camp, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Texas City Camp, between c1910 and c1915

Soldiers at Texas City, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Soldiers at Texas City, between c1910 and c1915

Packing at Texas City, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Packing at Texas City, between c1910 and c1915

Choice B. Randell, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Choice B. Randell, 1911

El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas, c1903. Creator: Unknown
El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas, c1903

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

Cotton sharecropper farm, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton sharecropper farm, Texas

Migrant cotton pickers, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton pickers. Texas

Contour plowing on mechanized farms, Childress County, Texas Panhandle, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Contour plowing on mechanized farms. Childress County, Texas Panhandle, Texas

The town square of Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The town square of Memphis, Texas. [Grocery store, jeweller's, Auto Body Glass & Top Shop, burger shop, Piggly Wiggly, barber's shop]

The town square of Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The town square of Memphis, Texas. [First National Bank, Harrison Hardware Co, draper's shop]

Cultivated fields and abandoned tenant house, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivated fields and abandoned tenant house. Hall County, Texas

On the steps of the bank in the public square, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the steps of the bank in the public square. Memphis, Texas

The Black Wax area of Texas, near Georgetown, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Black Wax area of Texas is the outstanding cotton producing section of the western cotton belt. Near Georgetown, Texas

Baseball, Sunday afternoon - the town of Rice vs. the town of Perry, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Baseball, Sunday afternoon. The town of Rice vs. the town of Perry, Texas

US No. 54, north of El Paso, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
U.S. No. 54, north of El Paso, Texas. One of the westward routes of the migrants

Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime, near Radstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas

Cotton pickers lunchtime, near Corpus Christi, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton pickers lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas

Man in front of post office, Carey, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Man in front of post office. Carey, Texas. This town is fast becoming a ghost town because of mechanization of cotton and displacement of tenant farmers

[Untitled, possibly related to: Corn, dried up... between Dallas and Waco, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Corn, dried up and lying in the field. The temperature was over one hundred degrees. Between Dallas and Waco, Texas

[Untitled, possibly related to: Corn, dried up... between Dallas and Waco, Texas], 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corn, dried up and lying in the field. The temperature was over one hundred degrees. Between Dallas and Waco, Texas]

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

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

Tally, Cotton field in South Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tally. Cotton field in South Texas

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

Cotton weighing, South Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton weighing. South Texas

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

The cotton gin near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cotton gin near Robstown, Texas

Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas

Cotton weighing near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton weighing near Robstown, Texas

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

Weighing cotton near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Weighing cotton near Robstown, Texas

Bales of cotton on gin platform, Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bales of cotton on gin platform. Robstown, Texas

Cotton bales on gin platform, Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton bales on gin platform. Robstown, Texas

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

Cotton gin, Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton gin. Robstown, Texas

Hoeing cotton, South Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hoeing cotton. South Texas

The long line of Texas, Near Dallas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The long line of Texas. Near Dallas

Itinerant worker, Fort Worth, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Itinerant worker. Fort Worth, Texas

Power farming displaces tenants from the land... Childress County, Texas Panhandle, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Power farming displaces tenants from the land in the western dry cotton area. Childress County, Texas Panhandle

Annie Moore Schwein - Born a slave in south Texas, Corpus Christi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Annie Moore Schwein. Born a slave in south Texas. Corpus Christi

Plantation of Brazos riverbottoms, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plantation of Brazos riverbottoms. Texas

Mail boxes in Bell County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mail boxes in Bell County, Texas. Three of these mail boxes are not in use. The tenant farmers have been replaced by tractor farming

Water barrels on plantation cabin in Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Water barrels on plantation cabin in Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage

Wife of a Mexican sharecropper near Bryan, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of a Mexican sharecropper near Bryan, Texas

Sand drift along fence, Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sand drift along fence. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas

Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl, Coldwater District, 30 miles north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl. Coldwater District, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas

Barn and shed of farm in the Texas Panhandle, near Boise City, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Barn and shed of farm in the Texas Panhandle. Near Boise City, Texas

Corn, dried up and lying in the field, between Dallas and Waco, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Corn, dried up and lying in the field. The temperature was over one hundred degrees. Between Dallas and Waco, Texas

The house that cotton builtEnnis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The house that cotton built. Ennis, Texas

The cotton lands of Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cotton lands of Ellis County, Texas, are well adapted to tractor farming but the houses of the farmer tenants stand empty

Tractor and operator, Navarro, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor and operator. Navarro, Texas

Part of family on relief, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of family on relief. Memphis, Texas

Woman on relief, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman on relief. Memphis, Texas

This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rains in the Dust Bowl, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rains in the Dust Bowl. Texas

West Texas tenant farmer's wife, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
West Texas tenant farmer's wife. She has worked on this land with him for twenty years

West Texas farmer prepares to sow millet, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
West Texas farmer prepares to sow millet

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Front of general store in small cotton town, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Front of general store in small cotton town. Texas. ['Selected Planting Cotton Seed Grown From Watson Pedigreed Seed - Tom Bean Gin Co.']

Farm owner near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm owner near Memphis, Texas. He says, "I'd rather have renters than tractors on my place. I oppose the tractors. It puts too many off the land

Hotel in Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hotel in Memphis, Texas. ['New Cobb Hotel']

A tractor driver on a Texas cotton farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A tractor driver on a Texas cotton farm. He has a wife and two young children. The use of low paid day labor instead of tenant farmers is the rule

Wife of Texas tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of Texas tenant farmer. The wide lands of the Texas Panhandle are typically operated by white tenant farmers, i.e. those who possess teams and tools and some managerial capacity

Abandoned house in Carey, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned house in Carey, Texas. Mechanized cotton farming and displacement of tenant families is fast making Carey a ghost town

Farmers on street corner, Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers on street corner. Odessa, Texas

Boy riding freight, West Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Boy riding freight. West Texas

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all their earthly belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas

Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas

Outskirts of oil boom town, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hundreds of families pouring in for jobs. Texas

Oil tanks near Midland, western Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oil tanks near Midland, western Texas

Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all their belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They come from Arkansas

Storm cellar on the Texas plains, West Texas Panhandle, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Storm cellar on the Texas plains. West Texas Panhandle

Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis. Hall County, Texas

One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children. Hall County, Texas

Abandoned tenant house and large-scale wheat field near Kincaid, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house and large-scale wheat field near Kincaid, Texas

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