Sujet

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California.

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A49_232

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

175,3Mo (4,8Mo) / 75,6cm x 58,1cm / 8926 x 6866 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California agriculture female women woman people male library work employment job man men hunger farming family father economics worker country fatherhood guy occupation migration migrating mother refuge death photography poor poverty exposure tent tents motherhood hungry location century camp profession parenting thirties Americans concept depression negative recession penniless dad B&W bereaved displaced destitution unemployed unemployment Library of Congress migrant mum refugee Working Class United States of America destitute black & white black and white B W working-class 1930s farm hand farmhand migrant worker farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers federal agency Great Depression refugees shantytown workers migrant workers migrants American America USA agricultural worker displacement farm labourer social class TGN refugee camp displaced people photograph shanty town united states Hooverville Congressional Library Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative Okie Okies displaced person displaced persons forced migrant forced migrants Federal Emergency Relief Administration FERA