Dorothea Lange

Mrs. Wardlow has 500 quarts of food in her dugout cellar. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon #Wardlow #500quarts #MalheurCounty #Oregon #Wardlow500 #DorotheaLLange #theGreatDepression #Lange #DorotheaLange #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773881/

Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico #TaosJunction #BosqueFarms #NewMexico #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759541/

Farmers' supply co-op established in 1936. 800 farmers in this county belong. Sells also radios, washing machines, and refrigerators. Paid thirteen percent dividends from January 1 to July 1, 1939. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon #Farmers #Sells #thirteenpercent #Nyssa #MalheurCounty #Oregon #Coca-Cola #FarmersSupplyCo-Op #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773815/

Part of migrant family of five, encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves #Porterville #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763197/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Contra Costa County, California. Stock ranch and plowed field #CostaCounty #California #DorotheaLanges #DOR-1948 #TheBancroftLibrary #DorotheaLange #theDustBowl #American #Lange #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771136/

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California #AmericanRiver #Sacramento #California #Americans #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763254/

Irrigation canal. Shows drop to go under road. Water has just been shut off for the season. Near Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon #Nyssa #MalheurCounty #Oregon #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773849/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Migrant family cleaning up. Near Vale, Malheur County, Oregon #MalheurCounty #Oregon #C-EDVIS #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773812/

Mrs. Wardlow bakes her own bread in her dugout house. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon #Wardlow #DeadOxFlat #MalheurCounty #Oregon #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773876/

Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available. Approximately one thousand people now living here and raising children #Hooverville #Bakersfield #California #post-Depression #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759610/

Migrant family cleaning up. Near Vale, Malheur County, Oregon #MalheurCounty #Oregon #theGreatDepression #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773806/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho. Many of those dependent on the mill have turned to small stump farming and many have been forced on relief. In this town the Humbird Lumber Company shut down in 1930 #BonnerCounty #Idaho #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017774089/

Congregation leaving after services. Preacher in doorway. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon #MalheurCounty #Oregon #DeadOxFlat #DorotheaLange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773868/

Country slaughterhouse for use of farmers. One mile north of Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon #Onemile #Nyssa #MalheurCounty #Oregon #ST-32-E #DorotheaLange’s #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773848/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: In Farm Security Administration migratory labor camp at Farmersville, California. Model T Fords still carry migrants #Farmersville #California #ModelT #America #ModelTFords #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771294/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Many small second businesses and stores on U.S. 99. Approaching Fresno. See general caption #Fresno #second #Kaljian #FurnitureHouse #USRoute99 #California #DorotheaLange #America #Lange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771970/

Part of migrant family of five encamped near Porterville, California, while waiting for work in the orange groves #Porterville #California #CentralValley #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763246/

The commodities on the counter represent two weeks allotment for four people. Photograph made in Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing station for emergency grants of food and clothing to destitute agricultural workers. Bakersfield, California #Bakersfield #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770928/

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm Security Administration (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 #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770925/

Contra Costa County, California. Cattle feeding in California hills #CostaCounty #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771151/

Contra Costa County, California. Cowbarn and hills, California dairy ranch #CostaCounty #California #Cowbarn #ContraCostaCounty #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771137/

One of the rear windows, tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Aveue D, New York City. The Solomon family are on the accepted list for resettlement at Hightstown, New Jersey #JacobSolomon #NewYorkCity #Hightstown #NewJersey #JacobSolomons #133AvenueD #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017762909/

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California #ElMonte #California #DorotheaLange #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759572/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. This is the first family to be selected by Farm Security Administration for housing #Shafter #California #first #second #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770852/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmer starting out on cut-over land building an addition to his one-room cabin. Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho. General caption 54 and 49 #PriestRiverValley #BonnerCounty #Idaho #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017774081/

Making adobe bricks. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico. These bricks are to be used in construction of the new school building #BosqueFarms #NewMexico #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759544/

Mexican children playing in ditch which runs through company cotton camp near Corcoran, California #Mexican #Corcoran #California #third #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763271/

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763238/

Independence (vicinity), Polk County, Oregon. Wife of an ex-logger, now a migratory field worker, resting in the shade of the hop vine at noon. General caption 45-1 #PolkCounty #Oregon #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773065/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. See general caption 1. #Bakersfield #Ridge #SanDiego #America #DorotheaLanges #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771522/

Near Manteca, California. November 1938. Farm Security Administration (FSA) tenant purchase client's herd #Manteca #California #DorotheaLange #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771079/

Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia #MaconCounty #Georgia #Cotton #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770424/

Another cut-over farm located across the road from Kytta place. Note land planted in strawberries. Western Washington, Thurston County, Michigan Hill. See general caption number 36 #Kytta #Washington #ThurstonCounty #MichiganHill #WesternWashington #DorotheaLanges #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773242/

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum #ElMonte #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759556/

Indiana farmer #Indiana #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763159/

Young cotton picker. Kern County migrant camp, California #KernCounty #California #theGreatDepression #CottonPicker #DorotheaLange #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763230/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: 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." #Westley #California #Coffee #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771881/

Singing hymns before opening of meeting of Mothers' Club at Arvin Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migrants, California #Mothers #California #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770927/

Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California #WalnutCreek #ContraCostaCounty #California #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773313/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Campers' bulletin board near entrance of Shafter camp for migrant workers. California #Shafter #California #SPECKLE #America #post-WorldWarII #DorotheaLange #TheGreatDepression #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770793/

El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum #ElMonteFederal #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759554/

Rural electrification. San Joaquin Valley, California #SanJoaquinValley #California #severalfeet #DorotheaLange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770971/

Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California #Cotton #California #SouthernSan #DorotheaLanges #American #theGreatDepression #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763286/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Farmersville, California. Meeting of the camp council #Farmersville #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772063/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99. Kern County, California #KernCounty #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770795/

Housing for rapidly growing fringe of lettuce workers on edge of town. There houses are built by the occupants, most of them recent migrants from the Southwest. (Subject of BAE) Frequently tents and trailers are on the same lots where houses are under construction. Salinas, California #Southwest #Salinas #California #"1/2acre #second #first #AGElkington #WillowSt #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771797/

Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. Common sight on California highways #CostaCounty #California #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771158/

Redwood trees and stumps on redwood highway. An active mill town of the Pacific Lumber Company is located at Scotia. California, Humboldt County #Scotia #California #HumboldtCounty #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773274/

U.S. Highway 101 which runs the full length of California, a main artery on which all travel. California, near King City #USHighway #California #KingCity #5801AR #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759557/

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. until noon, when photograph was made, he had picked eighty pounds, which equals eighty cents. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence #eightypounds #105degrees #Oregon #PolkCounty #Independence #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLangehttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773048/