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Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ...

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

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Farm Security Administration Photographs

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Lange, Dorothea

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Title
Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ...
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1935-11
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 000961-E
Topics
California -- Bakersfield
Migrant labor
Migrant agricultural laborers
Squatter settlements
California -- Kern County
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Caption title from Library of Congress record.
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: 21637
TMS Object Number: 000961-E
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ab7f9810-733b-0136-94bf-016fab63d4b1
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  • 1935: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2023: Found by you!
  • 2024

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ..." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7d4c63d0-73d2-0136-9f60-1dcc60aa5777

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ..." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7d4c63d0-73d2-0136-9f60-1dcc60aa5777

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1935). Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ... Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7d4c63d0-73d2-0136-9f60-1dcc60aa5777

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Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton ...