Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl Photographs of Migrant Workers in California 1936-1939 by Dorothea Lange.

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Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl

Photographs of Migrant Workers in California by Dorothea Lange

And Voices from the Dustbowl a collection of actual recordings from Government Camps in California

Downloaded from the American Memory Project The Library of Congress Created by Ms. Margaret Boyle and Mr. Gary J. Whitehead Tenafly High School, Tenafly New Jersey

One of the westward highways migrants drove, 1938

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, 1936

Between Tulare and Fresno, migrants on the road, 1939

Former Missouri farmers, now migrant workers in California, 1936

Children of migrant workers, California, 1937

Migrant pea pickers, and all their worldly possessions, 1936

Migrant cotton picker from Kansas on highway near Merced, California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern camp, California, with migrant mother and child, 1936

Man in Maryville migrant camp, figuring his year’s earnings, 1935

Oklahoman family vehicle, stranded by side of the road in California, 1936

Squatters along a highway camp (Hooverville) near Bakersfield, 1935

Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and the Ridge, 1939

Migratory family in auto camp, California, 1936

Migrant laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Migrant worker entertainers, in blackface, Shafter camp, 1938

Family, one month after leaving South Dakota, on road in Tulelake, California, 1939

Oklahoma drought refugee children, migrant camp, California

Arkansas family, seven months in California, washing dishes, 1936

Arkansan girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California.

Pregnant migrant woman, squatter’s camp, Kern County, California, 1936

Motherless children, cotton pickers, California, 1935

Drought refugees in migrant camp, California

California migrant camp, 1936

Son of destitute migrant, American River Camp, near Sacramento, California

Migrant worker’s home, California, 1937

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937

Freight car converted into house in “Little Oklahoma,” California

Pea ranch camp near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Migrant cotton picker, California, 1938

Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California

Camp council, FSA camp for migrant workers, Farmersville, California

Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936

Migrant child, FSA camp, Shafter, California, 1938

Halloween party, Shafter camp, California, 1938

FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Migrant pea pickers on the road with tire trouble, California, 1936

Destitute family of pea pickers; mother of seven, age 32, Nipoma, California, 1936

Works Cited Lange, Dorothea. The American Memory Project. “America from the Great Depression to WWII: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, ” Library of Congress. 12/15/03. (9/28/04). Voices from the Dustbowl. The American Memory Project. “The Charles R. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection American Folk Life Center, Library of Congress. 1/8/98. (9/28/04).