1. Photographs of Migrant Workersin
California by
Dorothea Lange

2. One of the westward highways migrants drove, 1938

3. Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, 1936
Lange, driving 35 miles between 9:00 and 9:45 AM, passed 28 cars that looked exactly like this.
Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, 1936

4. Between Tulare and Fresno, migrants on the road, 1939

5. Former Missouri farmers, now migrant workers in California, 1936

6. Children of migrant workers, California, 1937

7. Migrant pea pickers, and all their worldly possessions, 1936

8. Migrant cotton picker from Kansas on highway near Merced, California

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

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

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

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

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

14. Migratory family in auto camp, California, 1936

15. Migrant laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

16. Migrant worker entertainers, in blackface, Shafter camp, 1938

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

18. Oklahoma drought refugee children, migrant camp, California

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

20. Rent ten dollars per month for one room, iron bed, electric light.
Arkansan girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California.

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

22. Motherless children, cotton pickers, California, 1935

23. Drought refugees in migrant camp, California

24. California migrant camp, 1936

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

26. Migrant worker’s home, California, 1937

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

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

29. Pea ranch camp near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

30. Migrant cotton picker, California, 1938

31. Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California
The condition and plan of this camp show marked influences of Resettlement Administration camps for migrants in this community.
Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California

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

33. Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936

34. Migrant child, FSA camp, Shafter, California, 1938

35. Halloween party, Shafter camp, California, 1938

36. 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.
FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

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

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

39. 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/ (9/28/04).