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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
1045 photos
Cold storage lockers where farmers store meat and vegetables, eliminating much home canning and preserving of foods. Independence, Oregon
Logs at sawmill on Marys River near Corvallis, Oregon
Log chute at Pelican Bay Lumber Company mill. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon
"Pond monkey" guides course of logs from the mill pond to the chute. Pelican Bay Lumber Company mill. Klamath Falls, Oregon
At Pelican Bay Lumber mill logs enter the mill by way of log chute. Near Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon
Log rafts on the Williamette River between Salem and Independence, Oregon
Main street, in front of Oregon Employment Center office. Man with blanket roll is Indian, come to find job in hop fields. Independence, Polk County, Oregon. See general caption number 45-111
Main street, population 1,248, in hop growing district of Williamette Valley. Small town. Independence, Polk County, Oregon. See general caption number 45-111
On main street of Williamette Valley town. Independence, Polk County, Oregon
Hop farmer's children, small owner, and backyard of house. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence
Bindle stiff, used to be logger. Side of Pastime Cafe. Idle three weeks before opening of the Klamath Basin potato harvest. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake. General caption number 43
Single man, three weeks before opening of Klamath Basin potato harvest. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake. See general caption number 43
Single man, three weeks before the opening of the Klamath Basin potato harvest. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake. See general caption number 43
Bindle stiff, used to be logger. Side of Pastime Cafe. Idle three weeks before the opening of the Klamath Basin potato harvest. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake. See general caption number 43
Oregon. Josephine County, near Grants Pass. Hop shed, kilns beyond. See general caption number 45-1
Young farm boy. Younger brother trying to make a holster from the leather of an old coat. Oregon, Jackson County, near Medford
Young girl, daughter of small pear farmer tends her calf. She belongs to the 4-H Club, the largest movement among rural youth in America. Oregon. Jackson County, near Medford
Oregon. Medford. Half-grown farm boy on main drugstore corner in town
Oregon. Josephine County, near Grants pass. Migrant boy, family, live in grower's camp for hop season. See general caption number 45
Oregon, Josephine County, near Grants Pass. A row of shelters like this for hop pickers' families. General caption number 45
California Siskiyou County, Tulelake. Looking down main street of a frontier town, still impaired. This town has no safe drinking water
Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm, where her family still lives. She and her husband are migratory laborers and live in a shack in Klamath County waiting for potato harvest to open. "My husband just day labors."
Oregon, Josephine County, Grants Pass. Sunday picnic in park on the Roque River. Outskirts of Grants Pass