DorotheaLange

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to northcarolina

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Zollie Lyons, sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five

#ZollieLyons #Upchurch #NorthCarolina #thirteenacres #theUnitedStates

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772290/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to Georgia

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've got time to raise somp'n to eat." The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper. She sits on the porch and sorts tobacco

#Douglas #Georgia

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771066/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to northcarolina

Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family. Heard in conversation on his porch, "Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest." Person County, North Carolina

#sixacres #PersonCounty #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772340/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to northcarolina

Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer. Such small independent stations have become meeting places and loafing spots for neighborhood farmers in their off times. Granville County, North Carolina

#GranvilleCounty #NorthCarolina #SUNOCO

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772599/

DorotheaLange, 1 month ago to northcarolina

Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer. Such small independent stations have become meeting places (community center) and loading spots for neighborhood farmers in their off times. Granville County, North Carolina

#GranvilleCounty #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772597/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

Tobacco sharecropper's wife disposing of dishwater after washing breakfast dishes. She put on white shoes for the photograph. Person County, North Carolina

#NorthCarolina #PersonCounty

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772147/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

Tobacco sharecropper tells about his prospects. Person County, North Carolina

#NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772145/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

Tobacco sharecropper with his oldest daughter. Person County, North Carolina

#NorthCarolina #PersonCounty #Appalachia

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772132/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

Tobacco people take it easy after their morning's work "putting up" tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

#GranvilleCounty #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772481/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

Single tobacco flower. The tobacco plant is "topped" before it blooms in the field, with exception of a few plants which are saved out for seed. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina

#Shoofly #GranvilleCounty #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772307/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#ChapelHill #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772288/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to northcarolina

North Carolina farm boy in doorway of tobacco barn. Person County, North Carolina

#NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772109/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to random

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

#NewMexico #theDustBowl

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759935/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to california

Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Winters, California. He owns one acre subsistence farm near Porterville. Represented migratory laborers as speaker at Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (See published "Transactions" of the Club). Education: two years to University of Montana

#JackNeill #PulahCreek #Winters #California #oneacre #Porterville #CommonwealthClub #SanFrancisco #UniversityofMontana

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017760269/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to Texas

This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rain in the Dust Bowl. Auton [i.e. Anton], Texas

#theDustBowl #Auton #Anton] #Texas #DustBowl #theGreatDepression

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to california

End of the day. Near Calipatria, California. Pea fields

#NearCalipatria #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771607/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to california

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Near Calipatria. Five hundred pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch newly planted to peas. California

#NearCalipatria #SinclairRanch #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771530/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to missouri

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

#Missouri #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759827/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to bakersfield

Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfield, California

#Mexicans #theImperialValley #Bakersfield #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763219/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to california

Pea pickers at work. San Luis Obispo County, California

#SanLuis #ObispoCounty #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773457/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to oklahoma

Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the roadside near Santa Maria, California. Heading for the pea harvest but stalled because they have no money to buy a trailer's license

#Chickasaw #Oklahoma #SantaMaria #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769665/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to california

Pickers coming into the weigh master. Pea field near Calipatria, California

#Calipatria #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771534/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to SanFrancisco

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - scene at Wartime Civil Control Administration station when the first group of 664 persons of Japanese ancestry was evacuated from San Francisco

#SanFrancisco #Calif #first #Japanese #California #WorldWarII #Japanese-Americans #theWestCoast #theUnitedStates #PearlHarbor #Japan #American

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001697383/

DorotheaLange, 2 months ago to california

Arkansawyers auto camp. Ten cabins which rent for ten dollars a month with iron bed and electric light, one room. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

#Greenfield #SalinasValley #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771818/

DorotheaLange, 3 months ago to california

Pea field during harvest on Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Cars between the fields belong to field bosses, weighers, packers, and pickers, of whom there were 500 in the field on the day this photograph was made

#SinclairRanch #Calipatria #ImperialValley #California

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771746/