Dorothea Lange FSA Photographs Volume 1 Compiled by Marc J. Rochkind Other books and apps by Marc Rochkind are available at basepath.com. Copyright 2013 Marc J. Rochkind (layout and arrangement). All rights reserved. Images and captions in this book are from the Library of Congress website.
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Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento, California. The boy has dysentery. See mount 9921-C
Mexican mother in California. 'Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'' (Note on
Mexican labor situation in repatriation.)
Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas, California
Resettlement clients to be moved from Widtsoe area to farm in another county of Utah
Main street and town center. Escalante, Utah
Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of
California. Near San Jose Mission
Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California
Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California
Mexican field worker, father of six. Imperial Valley, Riverside County, California
Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton
Farm child. This family is now resettled on the Bosque Farms project. New Mexico
Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico
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
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
Childern at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California
Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California
Mexican field laborers' houses. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California
Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California
'Blue Monday' in a California migratory camp
Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico
Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico
These farm implements should never have been used for they destroyed a naturally rich grazing area. Mills, New Mexico
Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants. Marysville, California
Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico
Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis
Migrant Mexican children in contractor's camp at time of early pea harvest. Nipomo, California
Air view of Jersey Homesteads. Hightstown, New Jersey
Resident of Longview Homesteads in sawmill. Longview, Washington
Homegrown food is homegrown wealth. The foresighted farmer makes a garden plan showing what to plant, when to plant, and when to make second plantings. The plan shows how to cultivate and keep the garden free of weeds, and what poison spray to use to kill the insects that might eat up the vegetables. A garden is meant to feed the family, not the bugs and worms
Homegrown food is homegrown health. Exercise, fresh air, sunshine, as well as good things to eat, mean good health for the whole family. Many hands are making light work of this job
Migrant mother.
Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Loading boulder on stone boat, while excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirtytwo. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirtytwo. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirtytwo. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California
New York City. Post office, Lower East Side
Member of the Hightstown farm group says: 'Who says Jews can't farm?' Hightstown, New Jersey
Berry pickers. Southern New Jersey. These pickers are Negroes brought in by truck from Delaware
Young cherry picker, near Millville, New Jersey. The cherry crop is harvested by local families, men, women, and children
Housing of migrant berry pickers in southern New Jersey
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey
Alabama Negro working in field near Eutaw, Alabama
Alabama tenant farmer and children. Family labor in cotton. Near Anniston, Alabama
Hoe culture. Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston
Peach picker. Muscella, Georgia
Old time Negro living on cotton patch near Vicksburg, Mississippi
Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns one dollar a day
Mississippi Delta Negro children
Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia
Center Market. Washington, D.C.
Center Market. Washington, D.C.
Center Market. Washington, D.C.
Negro child. Hill House, Mississippi
Plantation store. Mississippi Delta
President of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union at Hill House, Mississippi
Plantation owner. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi
Sharecroppers' families gathering needs for their 4th of July celebration, whites and blacks together. Hill House, Mississippi
Children at Hill House, Mississippi
Negroes under the National Youth Administration. Live Oak, Florida
Negro in Greenville, Mississippi
Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma drought farmers. 'Nothing to do. These fellers,' said one of them, 'are goin' to stay right here till they dry up and die too'
Drought refguees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17, 1936, twenty-three car loads and truck loads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed throught that station entering California up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon
Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. 'The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can't seem to accomplish nothin' there. Two year drought, then a crop, then two years drought and so on. I got two brothers still trying to make it back there and there they're sitting,' said the father
Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street on the town while their crops burn up in the fields. 'Hello Bill, when's it gonna rain?'
'Old age' near Washington, Pennsylvania
'Old age' near Washington, Pennsylvania
Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown
Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown
People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, 'It's tough but life's tough anyway you take it'
Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of San Antonio, Texas. Came to Carrizo Springs during Civil War with white men seeking new range for their cattle. In 1865, with his master was one of the first settlers. He knew Billy the Kid, King Fisher, and other noted bad men of the border
Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of San Antonio. Came to Carrizo Springs during the Civil War with white cattlemen seeking new range. In 1865, with his master was one of the first settlers. Knew Billy the Kid, King Fisher, and other noted bad men of the border
Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an
auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. 'We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody'
The only home of a depression-routed family of nine from Iowa
Church near Blythe, California
Indiana farmer
Negro women near Earle, Arkansas
Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas
Cotton weighing. South Texas
Cotton picking in south Texas
Cotton picking in south Texas
Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas
Cotton picking in south Texas
Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. 'If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with'
To serve the crops of California, thousands of families live on wheels. Near Bakersfield, California
Son of depression refugee from Oklahoma now in California
Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family. California
Section of Kern migrant camp, California
Young cotton picker. Kern County migrant camp, California
Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California
Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in the American River Camp near Sacramento, California
Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California. Five children, aged two to seventeen years
Toward Los Angeles, California
Former tenant farmers on relief