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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos

1045 photos

Interviewing applicant. Hightstown, New Jersey

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Card Alley. North Bean District (Italians). San Francisco, California

Slums of San Francisco, California

Mission District. San Francisco, California

Mission District. San Francisco, California

Mission District. San Francisco, California

Lilac Street, Mission District. Rent fifteen dollars a month for three rooms. San Francisco, California

Backyard. North Beach District (Italians). San Francisco, California

Mission District firetrap. San Francisco, California

Rehabilitation clients. Five miles outside Phoenix, Arizona. Five hundred dollar loan for poultry (considered a good loan)

Rural Rehabilitation Administration client with the Rehabilitation Administration county agent. Outside of Hayward, California

Rural Rehabilitation Administration client. Hayward, California

Rural Rehabilitation Administration client. Hayward, California

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California

Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years, leaving their heavy equipment in the fields. Mills, New Mexico

Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico

Resettled at Bosque Farms project. Family of four from Taos Junction shows temporary dwelling

Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick for school and permanent houses. New Mexico

Temporary housing for the settlers. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico