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Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in 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"

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, Cali...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento [sic], California. The boy has dysentery

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento [sic], ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the Coachella Valley. California

Texan refugees' car. They are seeking work in the carrot fields of the...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "W...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, California

"This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, Cali...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the ...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family camped on U.S. Highway 63. Cache County [?], Oklahoma

Family camped on U.S. Highway 63. Cache County [?], Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma

Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Ok...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Fighting sand. Childress County, Texas Panhandle. Cultivating weedless cotton fields in Great Plains to break crust and prevent blowing sand from cutting young cotton plants

Fighting sand. Childress County, Texas Panhandle. Cultivating weedless...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm-reared youth with no opportunity on the farm, now travelling single among the migrants. Kern County, California

Farm-reared youth with no opportunity on the farm, now travelling sing...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A grandmother in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been in California fourteen months. From Oklahoma. The main thing is to get our families located and quieted down. Ain't no use to send them back; it's a waste of money. They won't stay."

A grandmother in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. 99. On ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley over which migrants travel back and forth

U.S. 99. On ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. On their way to the Arkansas cotton fields. 1936

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. On their way to the Arkansas ...

Scan of the reverse side of the photograph

Adobe school house. Bosque Farms Project, New Mexico. 1935.

Adobe school house. Bosque Farms Project, New Mexico. 1935.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento on the American River. Approximately 30 families lived in this camp in November 1936

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento on the American River. App...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California

The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlemen...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant camp in California during the pea harvesting. San Luis Obispo County, California

Migrant camp in California during the pea harvesting. San Luis Obispo ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had gone back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars ... that they were permitted to enter

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the members. California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, talking with one of the mem...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of oran...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the d...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. California

Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hund...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling to...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his w...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California

Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled ...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Southern California

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten ch...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Abandoned tenant home. Hall County, Texas

Abandoned tenant home. Hall County, Texas

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

In the waiting room of the relief office. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

In the waiting room of the relief office. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms, duststorms, insects ..."

Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, re...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glendale project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. One of the twenty-four homes on the part-time farm project

Glendale project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. One of the t...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Single men, itinerants with "bindles" waiting for the freight

Looking east down the railroad track, near Calipatria, California. Sin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A grandmother in a contractor's camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been in California fourteen months from Oklahoma. The main thing is to get our families located and quieted down. Ain't no use to send them back; it's a waste of money. They won't stay."

A grandmother in a contractor's camp. Stanislaus County, California. "...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camped on the flat. Family with five children, left their home in Texas in September 1938. They picked their way across the country in Texas and Arizona cotton. They had just entered California the night before. Near Holtville, Imperial County, California

Camped on the flat. Family with five children, left their home in Texa...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

An old black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Migrants' camp, California. 1935

An old black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Migrants' camp...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a farm, Migrant camp. California

An old black and white photo of a farm, Migrant camp. California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman standing outside of a hut, Migrant workers' shack. California. 1935

A black and white photo of a woman standing outside of a hut, Migrant ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range

Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be res...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Temporary home. These buildings to be remodeled later on for barns and outbuildings. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico

Temporary home. These buildings to be remodeled later on for barns and...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma," California

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma," California

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Icon "Food." Southern California, public domain photograph

Icon "Food." Southern California, public domain photograph

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

The rolling lands used for grazing near Mills, New Mexico

The rolling lands used for grazing near Mills, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mills, New Mexico

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. ...

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type while driving thirty-five miles between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, Cali...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Vall...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the D...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop failures. Combined earnings, man and wife tying carrots: One dollar and twelve cents a day

Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In Ca...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the ...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas. Haven't made a crop of cotton since 1932

Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas. Haven't made a crop of cotton sinc...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Abandoned tenant home. Hall County, Texas

Abandoned tenant home. Hall County, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas

Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blowing dust in the Oklahoma Panhandle

Blowing dust in the Oklahoma Panhandle

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. Farmer: "Every dime I got is tied up right here. If I don't get it out, I've got to drive off and leave it. Where would I go and what would I do? I know what the land did once for me, maybe it will do it again." Son: "It would be better if the sod had never been broke. My father's broke plenty of it. Could I get a job in California?"

Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. Farmer: "Every dime I got is tied up right here. If I don't get it out, I've got to drive off and leave it. Where would I go and what would I do? I know what the land did once for me, maybe it will do it again." Son: "It would be better if the sod had never been broke. My father's broke plenty of it. Could I get a job in California?"

Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daughter of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calpatria, Imperial Valley, California

Daughter of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) lab...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Son-in law of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Son-in law of migratory family in Farm Security Administration (FSA) l...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mother of family now migrants of Pacific coast. Were farm owners in Oklahoma until 1936. Picking hops. Polk County, Oregon. See general caption number 45-1

Mother of family now migrants of Pacific coast. Were farm owners in Ok...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Making the roads. The roads will be dirt roads with 18 foot gravel surface. Bosque Farms Project

Making the roads. The roads will be dirt roads with 18 foot gravel sur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of a migrant family. Calif.

Home of a migrant family. Calif.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of horses, Migrants' camp. California

A black and white photo of a group of horses, Migrants' camp. Californ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty to two hundred dollars. Bought on hope and sold on promises. No work since last fall. A few get relief and "welfare," but they say they are not eligible in California

Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma," California

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma," California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a farm, Shack in "Little Oklahoma," California

An old black and white photo of a farm, Shack in "Little Oklahoma," Ca...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had gone back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars ... that they were permitted to enter

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 ...

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their ho...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. On their way to the Arkansas cotton fields. 1936

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. On their way to the Arkansas ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton picker on her way to the cotton field. Kern migrant camp, California

Cotton picker on her way to the cotton field. Kern migrant camp, Calif...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the American River. About thirty families lived on this flat

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California on the America...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. This is a proposed location of Resettlement Administration migrant camp

Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. T...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The windshield of a migratory agricultural laborer's car, in a squatter camp near Sacramento, California

The windshield of a migratory agricultural laborer's car, in a squatte...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Mother and three children in a California squatter camp

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp. Imperial Valley, California, near Calipatria

Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp. Imperial Valley, Californi...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have their baggage inspected for plant pests. Yuma, Arizona

Migrant family stopped at the California-Arizona state line to have th...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato pickers' camp near Shaf...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl. Coldwater District, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas

Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl. Coldwater District, thirty miles n...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Mailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas

Mailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arkansans are settling in this country. Their cultures and forms of religious expression are being transferred with them

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arka...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Near Fresno, California. Migrants' tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific

Near Fresno, California. Migrants' tents are a common sight along the ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma. Now living in Kern migrant camp, California

Grandmother of twenty-two children from farm in Oklahoma. Now living i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film. Near Bakersfield, Calif. 1935.

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

An old black and white photo of a building, House in "Little Oklahoma," California

An old black and white photo of a building, House in "Little Oklahoma,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a house, House in "Little Oklahoma," California

An old black and white photo of a house, House in "Little Oklahoma," C...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California

Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A corral practically buried by drifted dust. Mills, New Mexico. Therefore, the fertile top soil of a grazing area cannot be utilized

A corral practically buried by drifted dust. Mills, New Mexico. Theref...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

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