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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
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Inspection station on the California-Arizona state line maintained by the California Department of Agriculture to prevent the spread of plant pests. Yuma, Arizona
Inspection station on the California-Arizona state line maintained by the California Department of Agriculture to prevent the spread of plant pests. Yuma, Arizona
Plant quarantine inspector examining tourist baggage before entering California. Yuma, Arizona
Children of Mexican cotton laborers. Casa Grande, Arizona
Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma. Eight children in the family. Note the housing. Near Casa Grande project, Arizona
Back door of Texas tenant farmer's house. He has worked this farm for twenty years
Detail of Texas Panhandle tenant farmer's house. He is now abandoning this house after twenty years effort to farm successfully
Sunday morning, Guanah, Texas. White congregation, ninety in attendance
One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children. Hall County, Texas
Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis. Hall County, Texas
On the steps of the bank in the public square. Memphis, Texas
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas
Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas
Mother and child of flood refugee family, near Memphis, Texas
Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas
Boy riding freight. West Texas
Wife of Texas tenant farmer. The wide lands of the Texas Panhandle are typically operated by white tenant farmers, i.e., those who possess teams and tools and some managerial capacity
The tractor driver (#16949) gets a dollar a day, this house to live in, and a cow to milk for working ten to eleven and a half hours daily. Three miles from Memphis, Texas
Tractor driver on cotton farm near Memphis, Texas
Hotel in Memphis, Texas
Front of general store in small cotton town. Texas
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town
Woman on relief. Memphis, Texas