Title
Migratory workers, 1939
Caption
Highway City, California, near Fresno. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1939
Date
1939
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP16A01_109
License type
Rights managed
Available size
60,0Mb (3,8Mb) / 14,9in x 15,6in / 4475 x 4686 (300dpi)