Sujet

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. 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.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A48_317

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

48,2Mo (1,9Mo) / 34,5cm x 35,0cm / 4072 x 4135 (300dpi)

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