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Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

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Title

Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lange, Dorothea

Names

United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1937-03

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 016348-C c.2

Subjects

California
Internal migrants
Migrant agricultural laborers
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Droughts

Genres

Photographs
Portraits

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)

Identifiers

TMS ID: 23156
TMS Object Number: 016348-C c.2
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ae1c6c20-83bf-0136-0177-0bce11bef97f

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae1c6c20-83bf-0136-0177-0bce11bef97f

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae1c6c20-83bf-0136-0177-0bce11bef97f

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae1c6c20-83bf-0136-0177-0bce11bef97f

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