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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos

1045 photos

Women packing apricots in large open sheds adjoining the orchards. Brentwood, California

Utah farm family in the orchard at peach harvest. Near Springdale, Utah

Small tenant farm producing peanuts and sweet potatoes. Southeastern Alabama

Saturday afternoon in summer on an Arkansas delta plantation

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, California. This family has been granted an Farm Security Administration loan of thirteen hundred dollars after struggling for eleven years on sixteen acres of poor land

News of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. San Francisco, California. Chinatown

Farmyard of rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Family of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Wife of Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Family selected by Farm Security Administration for the Mineral King cooperative farm. Tulare County, California

Morning mail at the Mineral King cooperative farm, Farm Security Administration, Tulare County, California. Old ranch house, California type, in the background. Buildings will be replaced by modern structures suitable to community farming

Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm. Ten families are now established on this 500 acre ranch to be operated as a unit. (Farm Security Administration) Tulare County, California

On the Mineral King cooperative farm. Tulare County, California

Pickers leaving the cotton field at noontime. Small cotton farm, Kern County, California

Gas station. Kern County, California

Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike. Bakersfield, California

Hungry boy at the Halloween party for migrant workers. Shafter migrant camp, California

Children at Halloween party, waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Shafter migrant camp, California

In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read news of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. Most of San Francisco's Chinese are Cantonese

In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read news of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. Most of San Francisco's Chinese are Cantonese

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care: Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place"