Sujet

FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp. One third had no work; two-thirds were finding part-time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) four dollars and twenty cents a week.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_413

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,1Mo (2,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,3cm / 4960 x 3813 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California library economics country migration migrating photography poor poverty tent tents location century camp thirties concept depression negative recession B&W Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression shantytown American America USA displacement TGN refugee camp photograph shanty town united states Hooverville Congressional Library Tent City 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 forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative