Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Rosewell, New Mexico to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico

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Title
Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Rosewell, New Mexico to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1937-05
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 016731-E
Topics
New Mexico -- Lordsburg
New Mexico -- Hidalgo County
Internal migrants
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.
Content: FSA collection contains two copies of this photograph.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
TMS ID: 505367
TMS Object Number: 016731-E
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0be2fd80-8842-0136-9300-73aa81d02a11
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1937: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Rosewell, New Mexico to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2e344be0-8844-0136-5671-3ba44ff0f971

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1937). Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Rosewell, New Mexico to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2e344be0-8844-0136-5671-3ba44ff0f971

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Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Rosewell, New Mexico to chop cotton. Near Lordsburg, New Mexico