Dorothea Lange - Kids

 Children and home of migratory cotton workers. Migratory camp, 

southern San Joaquin Valley, California, November 1936

  

 Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato 

pickers' camp near Shafter, California, May 1937

  

 Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp. California, February 1939

  

 Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. 

Randolph County, North Carolina, July 1939

  

 Entire enrollment of Lincoln Bench School. Teacher in center. 

Near Ontario, Oregon, Malheur County, October 1939

  

 Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. 

Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children 

during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley. February 1939

 

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936

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 Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway 

near Lordsburg, New Mexico, May 1937

  

 Oklahoma migratory workers washing in a hot spring 

in the desert. Imperial Valley, California, March 1937

  

 Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California, February 1937

  

 Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked their way across the country. Encamped on the river bottom. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California, February 1939

  

U.S. 99. Near Tulare, California. Entered California fall of 1938. En-route to 

pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke-down. "Want to get back 

to Missouri if they can ever get the money."  February 1939

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 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, April 1938

  

 Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month. November 1938

 

 Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale. Negro laborer's family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant. June 1938

  

 Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars. November 1938

   

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on the relief, because he once lived there. February 1939

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 Latter Day Saints portrait group. These people, man and wife, are both 

eighty-five years old. Converts to Mormonism from South Africa. 

She was the first schoolteacher in Escalante, April 1936

   

 Log house now occupied and enlarged by the Halley family. Mrs. Halley in doorway with youngest child. Bonner County, Idaho, October 1939

  

 Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront. California, February 1937

  

 Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project. February 1939

  

 Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, an FSA camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes. November 1939

 

 Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms, duststorms, insects. They'll all be here in another year or two. People exist here and they can't do that there. You can make it here if you sleep late and eat little, but it's pretty tough--there's so many people." June 1938

  

Migrant agricultural workers' home. California, February 1937

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 Farmer and boy in the fall of the year at the time the hunting season opens. They live in a white painted house across the road. Jackson County, Oregon, October 1939

  

 Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936

 

 Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99, March 1937

  

 Migratory family in auto camp. California, November 1936

  

 Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in 

the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona, May 1937

  

 Morning mail at the Mineral King cooperative farm, Farm Security Administration, Tulare County, California. Old ranch house, California type, in the background. Buildings will be replaced by modern structures suitable to community farming. November 1938

  

 Napa Valley, California. 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) in California before the war [i.e., World War I]. December 1938

 

 One pea picker's home. One-half mile off Highway 101 

at Nipomo, California, February 1936

  

 Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests, Spring 1937

  

Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. This is a proposed location of Resettlement Administration migrant camp, November 1936

Drought refugees

These photos of Dust Bowl refugees are by Dorothea Lange.

 Drought refugee children on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California, May 1937

  

 Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California, November 1936

  

 Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening 

of orange picking season at Porterville, California, Nov 1936

  

 Drought refugees are stopped at the inspection station in Yuma, Arizona, to have their baggage inspected for plant pests before they are allowed to enter California, Spring 1937

  

 Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California 

as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas," August 1936

  

 Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the 

pea fields near Nipomo, California, Spring 1937

  

 Drought refugees. California, February 1936

  

 Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway, March 1937

  

 Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work 

in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona, May 1937

  

Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's 

camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine." March 1937

Dorothea Lange - Migrants

 He came from an Oklahoma farm in April, 1938. 

Became a migratory farm worker in California.

 Mexican migrant woman harvesting tomatoes. 

Santa Clara Valley, California, 1938

 Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California, 1935

 Migratory boy, aged eleven, and his grandmother work side by side picking hops. Started work at five a.m. Photograph made at noon. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, 1939

 Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. 

Stalled on the desert near Indio, California, 1937

 Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. He has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago, 1938

 Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacramento, California. 

The boy has dysentery. 1936

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley, 1936