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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
1045 photos
Farm boys from western Nebraska, now migrating farm workers on the Pacific Coast. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
Mother and baby of family on the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 65
Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See general caption number 65
Manager of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration) on day camp opened in registration tent. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 62-1
Manager of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration) on day camp opened, in registration tent. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 62-1
Young mother, twenty five, says "Next year we'll be painted and have a lawn and flowers." Rural shacktown, near Klamath Falls, Oregon. General caption number 47
The children, seen in opening of tent in earlier photograph, before their new home. Rural shacktown. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon
The potato shed during busy season. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California
California State Employment Service office. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. This office is 500 yards from potato pickers camp. This office made 2,452 individual placements to growers in five weeks (season of 1938). General caption number 63-1
Railroad yard behind potato shed from which Klamath potatoes are shipped across the country. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California
House being moved through the main street of town (population 2473). Deposited over Sunday on intersection of U.S. 99. Quiet, rainy afternoon. Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon
Mother and two children, husband, his brother and brother's wife shown. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon. Rural shack community on outskirts of town. General caption number 47
Pea pickers line up on edge of field at weigh scale. Near Calipatria, Imperial County, California
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 in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children. On U.S. 99. Near Famosa or Vamosa, Kern County, California
Grower provides fourteen such shacks in a row for his hop pickers. Josephine County, Oregon. Near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. General caption number 45-11
Seven of the eight farmers shown with their cooperatively owned ensilage cutter on the Miller farm, where they are working filling the silo. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. General caption number 58
West wheat country in a region where yields are over twenty five bushels to the acre. Banks, mortgage companies, and insurance companies own many farms in this area. Umatilla County, Oregon
Couple who have raised ten children on reclaimed land which they cleared twenty years ago. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon. General caption number 59
Road leading to small farm in northern Oregon. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon. General caption number 59
Here are the farmers who have bought machinery cooperatively. Photographed just before they go to dinner on the Miller farm where they are working. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon
Farm women of the "Helping Hand" club display a pieced quilt which they are making for the benefit of one of their numbers. Near West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. General caption number 58-11
Mr. Granger, seen in doorway of his new barn. Yamhill County, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Yamhill farms FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. General caption number 57