Sujet
FSA emergency migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.
Légende
Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was.".
Date
1939
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM22A51_450
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
54,0Mo (1,8Mo) / 32,2cm x 42,0cm / 3807 x 4960 (300dpi)