Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California ...
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Title
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California ...
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: 009680-C c.2
Subjects
California -- Riverside County
Migrant agricultural laborers
Migrant laborers' families
Genres
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Caption continues: ... Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or two at a time gave them enough for food and gas to continue. On this day, they were within a day's travel of their destination, Bakersfield, California. Their car had broken down en route and was abandoned.
Content: Date and title from Library of Congress.
Content: FSA Collection contains two copies of this photograph. Copy 2 cropped.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 6 5/16 x 8 1/4 in. (16 x 21 cm)
Identifiers
TMS ID: 22286
TMS Object Number: 009680-C c.2
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e44ad200-76f7-0136-b336-01e74b85b967
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California ..." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e44ad200-76f7-0136-b336-01e74b85b967
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California ... Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e44ad200-76f7-0136-b336-01e74b85b967
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California ..." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e44ad200-76f7-0136-b336-01e74b85b967
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