Dorothea Lange - Kids

More pictures of children.

 Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1938

 Girls of Lincoln Bench School study their reading lesson. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939

 Just arrived from Kansas. On highway going to potato harvest.
Near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

 Migrant children. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years.
Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939

 Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton, 1936

 Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Children in large private bean pickers camp.
Pickers came from many states, from Oklahoma to North Dakota, 1939

Sharecroppers' families gathering needs for their 4th of July celebration, whites and blacks together, Hill House, Mississippi, 1936

 The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family.
Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939

Tobacco sharecropper child playing. Note burlap covered playhouse.
Person County, North Carolina, 1939

Dorothea Lange - Migrants

Dorothea Lange was perhaps the most famous of the photographers documenting conditions during the Great Depression. She produced some of the most iconic images of poverty in American history. Some of those are among this set.

 Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, age thirty-two, Nipomo, California, 1936

This is the best-known image to come out of the Great Depression. Sometimes it is given the title "Migrant Mother." (The link tells who this person is and some of her story.) The following picture is another one of her.

 Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, 1936

 Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California, 1936

 Mother and baby of family on the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939

 Calipatria, Imperial Valley, in FSA emergency migratory labor camp, 1939

 Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California, 1936

The final three pictures in this set are all of the same family. Eleven children...how did they survive?

 Family in FSA migratory labor camp, Brawley, Imperial Valley, 1939

 Family originally from Mangrum, Oklahoma in FSA migratory labor camp, Brawley, Imperial Valley, 1939

FSA migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children, 1939

Russell Lee - Kids in poverty

Here are more photos from Russell Lee. This group focuses on children living in poverty.

 Children of Frank Moody, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1936

 One of John Scott's children recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia, Ringgold, Iowa, 1937

 Child of relief worker living in two-room shack home, Caruthersville, Missouri, 1938

 Children of day laborer work in cane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana, 1938

 Children of FSA client, former sharecropper, Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

Family of sharecropper, cut-over farmer of Mississippi bottoms, 1938

 Interior of house without windows, home of sharecropper,
cut-over farmer of Mississippi bottoms, 1938

 Mother washing children’s feet in a sharecropper’s shack in Missouri, 1938

 Children of squatters and migrants living on Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939

 Front porch of tenant farmer's house near Warner, Oklahoma, 1939

 Migrant child, near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Migrant children playing in front of tent, Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Migrant children sitting in back seat of family car east of
Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Outdoor stove, washstand and other household equipment
of migrant family near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Twelve-year-old girl who keeps house in a trailer for her three brothers who are migrant workers, near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

Children of miners standing in their tattered clothes, 1946

Russell Lee - migrants

Another of the great FSA photographers, Russell Lee compiled a vast body of work. His photos of migrants in the late 1930s are particularly affecting.

 Camp by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma, 1939

 Child of agricultural day laborer coming out of tent near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Child of migrant strawberry picker, Hammond, Louisiana, 1939

 Husband and wife sitting on settee encamped by the roadside, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Interior of migrant tent on bank of Arkansas River, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Migrant agricultural workers camped near Vian, Oklahoma, 1939

 Migrant child standing in doorway of trailer, Edinburg, Texas, 1939

 Migrant father and daughter near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Migrant man and wife camped near Sebastin, Texas, 1939

 Migrant mother and child near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Migrant mother with child, near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Migrant mother with children in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas, 1939

 Migrant mother with son, Weslaco, Texas, 1939

 Veteran migrant worker and his wife camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1939

Women of a migrant family peeling potatoes near Henrietta, Oklahoma, 1939