Sujet

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished.".

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_430

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

147,7Mo (5,2Mo) / 72,1cm x 51,3cm / 8516 x 6063 (300dpi)

Mots clés

water California countryside building buildings agriculture farming house houses politics economics country farm photography rustic political location century SHACK thirties homestead concept depression negative recession B&W water supply United States of America Water Tower black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural American America USA New Deal rural life TGN photograph united states Regionalism Heritage Art 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 nitrate negative Rural Rehabilitation Administration