The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California
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Item data
Title
The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California
Collection
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lange, Dorothea
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1937
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 016242-C
Subjects
California -- Kern County
Internal migrants
Migrant agricultural laborers
Squatter settlements
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Droughts
Genres
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from typed caption on verso. Not in LC.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration stamps, manuscript Resettlement Administration number, and typescript caption on verso.
Identifiers
TMS ID: 23083
TMS Object Number: 016242-C
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2b92a6a0-c5da-012f-e414-58d385a7bc34
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Date Issued
1937
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b92a6a0-c5da-012f-e414-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1937). The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b92a6a0-c5da-012f-e414-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b92a6a0-c5da-012f-e414-58d385a7bc34
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