Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields ...
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Title
Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields ...
Collection
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lange, Dorothea
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1936-08
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 009665-E c.2
Subjects
California -- Blythe
California -- Riverside County
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Droughts
Migrant agricultural laborers
Internal migrants
Genres
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Date and title from Library of Congress.
Content: Caption continues: ... The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17, 1936, twenty-three car loads and truck loads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed throught that station entering California up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Content: FSA Collection contains three copies of this photograph. Copy 3 cropped.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Identifiers
TMS ID: 22279
TMS Object Number: 009665-E c.2
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d3de6f30-76f7-0136-8275-316f33d29ef8
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