Rochkind - Dorothea Lange FSA Photographs Volume 1

Dorothea Lange FSA Photographs Volume 1 Compiled by Marc J. Rochkind Other books and apps by Marc Rochkind are available at basepath.com. Copyright 2013 Marc J. Rochkind (layout and arrangement). All rights reserved.

The boy has dysentery. See mount 9921-C Mexican mother in California. 'Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me 'We don't want to go, we belong here.'' (Note on Mexican labor situation in repatriation.) Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas, California Resettlement clients to be moved from Widtsoe area to farm in another county of Utah Main street and town center. Escalante, Utah Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. Near San Jose Mission Date picker's home.

Coachella Valley, California Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California Mexican field worker, father of six. Imperial Valley, Riverside County, California Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton Farm child. This family is now resettled on the Bosque Farms project. New Mexico Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project.

New Mexico El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum Childern at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation Dispossessed Arkansas farmers.

These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California Mexican field laborers' houses. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California 'Blue Monday' in a California migratory camp Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area.

Spring 1935. New Mexico These farm implements should never have been used for they destroyed a naturally rich grazing area. Mills, New Mexico Entrance to Marysville camp for migrants. Marysville, California Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico Oklahoma potato picker's family encamped on the flats near Shafter, California Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis