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 Woman in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. 

Tulare County, California, November 1938

  

 Women packing apricots in large open sheds adjoining 

the orchards. Brentwood, California, January 1938

  

 Women walking down the road to see a sick neighbor. 

Person County, North Carolina, July 1939

  

 Young migrant mother with six weeks old baby born in a hospital with 

aid of Farm Security Administration (FSA) medical and association for 

migratory workers. She lives in a labor contractors' camp near Westley, California. 

"I try to keep him eatin' and sleepin' regular like I got him out of the hospital."

  

 Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along 

the road. Imperial Valley, California, Spring 1937

  

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. 

The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from 

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. November 1936

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 While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in nursery school under trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California, November 1936

  

 White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy 

cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi, July 1936

  

 Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms. Texas, June 1938

  

 Wife and five month old baby of young tobacco sharecropper (Mr. Taylor) in window of their home. She is seventeen years old. On the following day she helped "put in" tobacco at the farm. Granville County, North Carolina, July 1939

 

Wife of migratory worker in auto camp. California, November 1936

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 Tulare County, California. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. Mother from Oklahoma tends baby with dysentery and awaits arrival of FSA camp resident nurse, May 1939

  

 Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, 

New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement, May 1935

["Teutonic"?]

  

 Visiting lassies sit on rostrom. Salvation Army, 

San Francisco, California, Apr 1939

  

 Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."August 1939

 

Washington, Yakima Valley. Fruit tramp, August 1939

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Siler City, North Carolina. Wagons pulled up in field 

one block away from the main street. July 1939

  

Sorghum mill near New Carthage, Mississippi, August 1938

  

 Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care - Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place" November 1938

  

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent." March 1937

 

 The older brother teaches the younger on a farm 

in the Piedmont, North Carolina, 1936

  

 Tobacco sharecropper's daughter getting eggs from hen's nest in the henhouse. Enclosure for the pig is just beyond under the pine trees. Person County, North Carolina, July 1939

  

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with 

drought refugee family. California, November 1936

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Siler City, North Carolina. Wagons pulled up in field 

one block away from the main street, July 1939

  

Sorghum mill near New Carthage, Mississippi, August 1938

  

 Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care. Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place." November 1938

  

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have 

wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're 

well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent." 1937

  

The older brother teaches the younger on a 

farm in the Piedmont, North Carolina, 1936

Dorothea Lange - Kids

Children just seem to naturally be the best photographic subjects.

 Migratory child in squatter camp before hop season opens. 

Her little brothers work in the field. Washington, Yakima Valley, August 1939

  

 Millworker's children eating watermelon on porch of rented house. 

Six miles north of Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina, July 1939

  

 Recreational facilities for the children, Kern 

migrant camp, California, November 1936

  

 Rural children at R.F.D. box, near Fruitland, Idaho, October 1939

  

 Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' 

camp. Kern County, California, March 1937

  

The Free children in doorway of their home in Sunday clothes. 

Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon, October 1939

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 Plantation owner with one of the Negro plantation children. 

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, June 1937

  

 Plowboy in Alabama earns seventy-five cents daily, June 1936

  

 Portable laundry unit, shower unit beyond. FSA 

(Farm Security Administration) camp, Merrill, Oregon, Oct 1939

  

 Railroad yards, Kearney, Nebraska. Overland train passengers go back to their cars after ten minute train stop on trip between San Francisco and Chicago, June 1939

  

 Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp 

near Holtville, California, February 1937

  

 Rehabilitation clients. Five miles outside Phoenix, Arizona. Five hundred 

dollar loan for poultry (considered a good loan), December 1935

  

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Girls' Sunday school 

class sings between preaching, April 1939

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 People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, 

Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, August 1936

  

 Open air food factory. Weighing in the peas 

near Calipatria, California, February 1939

  

 Oregon, Josephine County, Grants Pass. Sunday family picnic. Hot afternoon in park on Rogue River. Her mother, his mother, young husband and wife, two boys, and baby, August 1939

  

 Outside the Labor Temple where the conference called by the Steinbeck Committee during the cotton strike is being held. Bakersfield, California, November 1938

  

Owner's daughter topping tobacco. She has a patch of her own of about 1000 hills from which she will be given the proceeds. Her father buys her clothes and she can have the "patch" money for whatever she wants. She is in the eighth grade; says she doesn't learn as fast as she ought. Granville County, North Carolina, July 1939

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 Leveling the land for irrigation on the Bosque Farms project. The tract of two thousand four hundred acres to be cultivated under irrigation. New Mexico, December 1935

  

 Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. California, February 1936

  

 Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California, May 1935

  

 Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida, July 1936

  

 Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina, July 1939

 

 One faucet by the packing sheds is the only source of water for 150-200 families camped in the brush waiting for the potato harvest to open. Edison, California, April 1938

  

One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99. 

Kern County, California, November 1938