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Photographs of Migrant Workers
in
California
1936-1939
by
Dorothea Lange
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One of the westward highways migrants drove, 1938
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Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, 1936
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Between Tulare and Fresno, migrants on the road, 1939
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Former Missouri farmers, now migrant workers in California, 1936
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Children of migrant workers, California, 1937
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Migrant pea pickers, and all their worldly possessions, 1936
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Migrant cotton picker from Kansas on highway near Merced, California
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Tom Collins, manager of Kern camp, California, with migrant mother and child, 1936
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Man in Maryville migrant camp, figuring his year’s earnings, 1935
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Oklahoman family vehicle, stranded by side of the road in California, 1936
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Squatters along a highway camp (Hooverville) near Bakersfield, 1935
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Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and the Ridge, 1939
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Migratory family in auto camp, California, 1936
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Migrant laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
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Migrant worker entertainers, in blackface, Shafter camp, 1938
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Family, one month after leaving South Dakota, on road in Tulelake, California, 1939
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Oklahoma drought refugee children, migrant camp, California
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Arkansas family, seven months in California, washing dishes, 1936
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Arkansan girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California.
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Pregnant migrant woman, squatter’s camp, Kern County, California, 1936
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Motherless children, cotton pickers, California, 1935
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Drought refugees in migrant camp, California
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California migrant camp, 1936
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Son of destitute migrant, American River Camp, near Sacramento, California
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Migrant worker’s home, California, 1937
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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937
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Freight car converted into house in “Little Oklahoma,” California
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Pea ranch camp near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California
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Migrant cotton picker, California, 1938
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Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California
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Camp council, FSA camp for migrant workers, Farmersville, California
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Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936
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Migrant child, FSA camp, Shafter, California, 1938
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Halloween party, Shafter camp, California, 1938
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FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California
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Migrant pea pickers on the road with tire trouble, California, 1936
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Destitute family of pea pickers; mother of seven, age 32, Nipoma, California, 1936
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Works Cited
Lange, Dorothea. The American Memory Project. “America from theGreat Depression to WWII: Photographs from the FSA-OWI,1935-1945.” Library of Congress. 12/15/03.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html (9/28/04).
Voices from the Dustbowl. The American Memory Project. “The CharlesR. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 1940-41. American Folk Life Center, Library of Congress. 1/8/98.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html (9/28/04).