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Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in 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.

Abandoned tenant house. Hall County, Texas

Abandoned tenant house. Hall County, 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

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

Tent of migratory workers in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp (emergency). Calipatria, California

Tent of migratory workers in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp (...

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

Washington, Yakima. Homes are built bit by bit with whatever materials are available. Many drought refugees settle in Sumac Park, one of several large shacktowns around Yakima

Washington, Yakima. Homes are built bit by bit with whatever materials...

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Weather predictions are highly important to the dust bowl farmer. Measuring the velocity of the wind at the U.S. Weather Bureau, Dodge City, Kansas

Weather predictions are highly important to the dust bowl farmer. Meas...

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

Oklahomans in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Oklahomans in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California

Scan of the reverse side of the photograph

Icon Mrs. Howard and the baby., public domain photograph

Icon Mrs. Howard and the baby., 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

A couple of men standing in front of a shack, Migrant's shack. California

A couple of men standing in front of a shack, Migrant's shack. Califor...

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

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 historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A group of people standing next to a car, Drought refugees. California

A group of people standing next to a car, Drought refugees. California

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

An old black and white photo of a tent, Arkansas family in California

An old black and white photo of a tent, Arkansas family in California

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

An old black and white photo of a tent, Arkansas family in California

An old black and white photo of a tent, Arkansas family in California

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

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 ...

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

A black and white photo of a farm, Kern County migrant camp. California

A black and white photo of a farm, Kern County migrant camp. Californi...

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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

Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California

Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, Ca...

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

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road ...

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the...

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Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven ...

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

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in family

Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven ...

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

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...

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Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family. California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family...

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

General view of Kern migrant camp, California

General view of Kern migrant camp, California

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, 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

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.

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, on U.S. H...

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. 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.

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

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

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California

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

Young Oklahoma mother, age 18, penniless in California. Imperial Valley. 1937

Young Oklahoma mother, age 18, penniless in California. Imperial Valle...

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

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.

Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California

Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family l...

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Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway

Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family of drought refugees on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California

Family of drought refugees on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California

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

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

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California

Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) eme...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, 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 ...

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

Oklahoma migratory workers washing in a hot spring in the desert. Imperial Valley, California
In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father, eldest daughter and eldest son working

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea ha...

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

An old black and white photo of a shack, Migrant's home, California.

An old black and white photo of a shack, Migrant's home, California.

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

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

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

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

A black and white photo of a group of tents, Migrants' camp. Californi...

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

Icon Migrants. California, public domain photograph

Icon Migrants. 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

Bosque Farms Project. Resettled families temporary home. Each settler is alotted a plot of 40 acres

Bosque Farms Project. Resettled families temporary home. Each settler ...

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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.

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

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers t...

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

These farm implements should never have been used for they destroyed a naturally rich grazing area. Mills, New Mexico

These farm implements should never have been used for they destroyed a...

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

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road ...

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Impoverished family from Okla. on the road. Texas

Impoverished family from Okla. on the road. 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

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...

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

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...

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

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"

Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Ba...

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.

Young cotton picker. Kern County migrant camp, California

Young cotton picker. Kern County migrant camp, California

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

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Entrance and view of Kern migrant camp. California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, 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.

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 a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

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

Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along the road. Imperial Valley, California

Young family just arrived from Arkansas camped along the road. Imperia...

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

Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway

Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oklahoma migratory workers washing in a hot spring in the desert. Imperial Valley, California

Oklahoma migratory workers washing in a hot spring in the desert. Impe...

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

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.

One of the migrants' routes west, U.S. 80. Southwest New Mexico

One of the migrants' routes west, U.S. 80. Southwest New Mexico

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

Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. This is the first family to be selected by Farm Security Administration for housing

Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These...

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

Living conditions of workers in agriculture on whom depend the crops of California. Family of migratory cotton pickers, originally from Oklahoma, living in abandoned cow barn. Note bed in corner. Kern County, California

Living conditions of workers in agriculture on whom depend the crops o...

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

A black and white photo of a destroyed house, Patterson, California. Squatter camp

A black and white photo of a destroyed house, Patterson, California. S...

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

After a lift of five miles by a passing motorist, the family of homeless, walking people are left at the edge of the next town [near Brawley, California]

After a lift of five miles by a passing motorist, the family of homele...

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

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Scan of the reverse side of the photograph

Bosque Farms Project. Resettled families temporary home. Each settler is alotted a plot of 40 acres.

Bosque Farms Project. Resettled families temporary home. Each settler ...

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

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...

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

Measuring the velocity of the wind at the U.S. Weather Bureau station at Dodge City, Kansas. Weather predictions are highly important to the dust bowl farmer.

Measuring the velocity of the wind at the U.S. Weather Bureau station ...

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

Surveying gang. WPA workers. Bosque Farms Project

Surveying gang. WPA workers. Bosque Farms Project

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

Icon Mrs. Howard and the baby, public domain photograph

Icon Mrs. Howard and the baby, 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

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

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

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor

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

Stand of vega grass eaten off close. In good seasons hay can be cut from areas like this. New Mexico

Stand of vega grass eaten off close. In good seasons hay can be cut fr...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, woods, trees, arbor, outdoors, romantic landscape, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma." Forty families in this group. Tents, tent houses, shacks, freight cars converted into homes

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma." Forty families in this group. T...

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

Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California, Kern County

Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California, Kern County

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Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California, Kern County

Housing for Oklahoma refugees. California, Kern County

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

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

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

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California

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

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seve...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, 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 ...

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

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mother and child

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, California, with migrant mo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

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

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Two families, fifteen people, from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, camped by the ...

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

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

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

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

Drought refugees in migratory agricultural workers' camp. California

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

Relief client near Oil City, Oklahoma. Oil City is a source of heavy immigration to California. Carter County, Oklahoma

Relief client near Oil City, Oklahoma. Oil City is a source of heavy i...

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

Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma

Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees from the Southwest, Arizona is a stopping point on the way to California, where money can be made during the cotton harvest with which to continue the journey

Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees fr...

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

Depression and drought struck towns as well as farms. Laborers, clerks, building tradesmen immigrated as well as farm people. Caddo, Oklahoma

Depression and drought struck towns as well as farms. Laborers, clerks...

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

Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost their farm and for the last three years "have been draggin' our children around California. We're a have-to case." Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

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