DorotheaLange

DorotheaLange, 3 months ago to oklahoma

On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near #WebbersFalls, #MuskogeeCounty, #Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in #Paris, #Arkansas. Son was a tenant farmer. "We're bound for #KingfisherOklahoma wheat) and #Lubbock #Texas cotton). We're not trying to but we'll be in #California yet. We're not going back to #Arkansas; believe I can better myself"

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770570/

DorotheaLange, 9 months ago to missouri

#Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on #U.S.Highway99 near #Tracy, #California

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DorotheaLange, 9 months ago to random

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near #Lordsburg, #NewMexico

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DorotheaLange, 9 months ago to oklahoma

#Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near #Lordsburg, #NewMexico

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769968/

DorotheaLange, 7 months ago to oklahoma

From #Oklahoma farm April 1938) to strike leader in #California. Cotton strike Nov. 1938). He displays his union membership book. "Vote No on No. 1" refers to proposed anti-picketing law which was later defeated by #California electorate. #KernCounty, #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771009/

DorotheaLange, 7 months ago to california

Migrant cotton picker on way to field. #Kern migrant camp, #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763232/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to Arkansas

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans, sixty of kraut, thirty of grapes and twenty of peaches. I swapped two bushels of grapes and got two bushels of peaches and I swapped one bushel of grapes for one bushel of apples"

#Graham #Conway #Arkansas #seventy-fivequarts #twobushels

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770670/

DorotheaLange, 17 days ago to oregon

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Large private auto camp in woods at end of day. Bean pickers from many states. Refer to general caption 46

#Oregon #MarionCounty #WestStayton

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772872/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to california

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

#Edison #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770721/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to oklahoma

Home of white tenant farmer family. Newport, Oklahoma

#Newport #Oklahoma

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770099/

DorotheaLange, 8 days ago to random

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937

#Gaffney #SouthCarolina #theGreatDepression

DorotheaLange, 18 days ago to oregon

Bean pickers tent, one of fourteen in a group on grower's property, adjoining the bean field. Near West Stayton Marion County, Oregon. See general caption number 46

#MarionCounty #Oregon

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773301/

DorotheaLange, 23 days ago to california

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Living conditions for migrant potato pickers. Note potato sheds across the road. Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

#SiskiyouCounty #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773341/

DorotheaLange, 24 days ago to northcarolina

Thirteen year old daughter of sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father has dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket, then cover the roots with earth. Her father hopes to send her to school. Note pine woods and light colored soil. Near Olive Hill, North Carolina

#OliveHill #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772304/

DorotheaLange, 27 days ago to california

Camp of single men during potato harvest. Note packing shed across the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

#Tulelake #SiskiyouCounty #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773402/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to oklahoma

On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

#Wagoner #WagonerCounty #Oklahoma #AGreatNewOil

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763110/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to okc

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

#Farmers #OklahomaCity #Oklahoma

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770084/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to oklahoma

Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California

#Oklahoma #Shafter #California #CentralValley

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017760261/

DorotheaLange, 28 days ago to california

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Bindle stiffs in town three weeks before opening of Klamath Basin potato harvest. California, Siskiyou County, Tule Lake

#Bindle #KlamathBasin #California #SiskiyouCounty #TuleLake

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773319/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to oklahoma

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. "Anybody as wants to work can get by. But if a person loses their faith in the soil like so many of them back there in Oklahoma, then there ain't no hope for them. We're making it all right here, all but for the schooling, 'cause that boy of mine, he wants to go to the University"

#Tulsa #Oklahoma #California #theGreatDepression

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763221/

DorotheaLange, 19 days ago to memphis

Butter bean vines across the porch. quarter in Memphis, Tennessee

#Memphis #Tennessee

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770578/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to oklahoma

Son of depression refugee from Oklahoma now in California

#Oklahoma #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763222/

DorotheaLange, 25 days ago to california

Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

#KernCounty #California #ModelT

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017760272/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to california

Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without water and sanitary conditions. Near Shafter, California

#Shafter #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769922/

DorotheaLange, 26 days ago to oregon

This family came to the potato harvest after the Oregon hop harvest. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp unit. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

#Oregon #Merrill #KlamathCounty #theGreatDepression

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017774397/