Farm Security Administration

Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll"
Lange, Dorothea
February 1936

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement
Lange, Dorothea
May 1935

Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood[…]
Lange, Dorothea
June 1936

Lumberjacks using peaveys to remove logs from banks of Little Fork River. Near Littlefork, Minnesota
Lee, Russell
May 1937

Levee worker during the flood, on a raw day with a thirty-mile wind. These men are very cold and almost exhausted from constant work
Lee, Russell
January 1937

A boy at mealtime in the camp for white refugees from the flood, Forrest City, Arkansas
Locke, Edwin
n.d.

Slums near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. With the Capitol clearly in view, these houses exist under the most unsanitary conditions; outside privies, no inside water supply and overcrowded conditions
Mydans, Carl
July 1935

Interior of Mt. Gilead (colored) school on area of Plantation Piedmont agricultural demonstration project. Near Eatonton, Georgia
Mydans, Carl
June-July 1936

View of alley in Northwest Washington, behind North Capitol Street. Blake School in background
Mydans, Carl
November 1935

Typical slum privy. The only available water supply is usually nearby, Washington, D.C.
Mydans, Carl
1935

Blackened stumps of trees and ugly snags cover the slopes leading to Mount Hood, Oregon
Rothstein, Arthur
October 1935

Home of a mountain family who will be resettled on new land. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Rothstein, Arthur
October 1935

The parents of seven children. Flood refugees in Tent City, camp near Shawneetown, Illinois
Unknown
April 1937

Texas Tenant Farmers Displaced by Power Farming / Displaced Tenant Farmers Goodlet, Hardeman Co., Texas
Lange, Dorothea
June 1937

Texas tenant farmer in California. Marysville Migrant Camp (R.A)
Lange, Dorothea
August 1935 [SFMOMA]

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"
Lange, Dorothea
November 1936 [LC]

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"
Lange, Dorothea
June 1935 [LOC], 1935 [verso]

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California
Lange, Dorothea
November 1936 [LOC]