Photographs of Migrant Workers

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Photographs of Migrant Workers in California 19
36-1939 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
years 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, squatters 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 workers 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 the Great 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
Charles R. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker
Collection 1940-41. American Folk Life Center,
Library of Congress. 1/8/98. http//memory.loc.go
v/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html (9/28/04).