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
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
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