Sujet

Mother and child, FSA camp, Farmersville, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Tulare County. Farm Security Administration camp (FSA) for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Mother and child, come to California from Oklahoma. They have six children, aged two to nineteen years. The mother finished the eighth grade in school. They left their farming in Chicasha in the fall of 1936 to go to Arizona to pick cotton. They returned to Oklahoma to try again; failed and re-entered California February 27, 1938 to pick peas under a labor contractor. The father is chairman of camp council.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_459

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,5Mo (1,9Mo) / 31,3cm x 42,0cm / 3698 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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